Beverly Shangkuan Cheng
(Philippines)
Dr. Beverly Shangkuan-Cheng is the President of the Philippine Choral Directors Association, the incoming Chair of the Conducting & Choral Ensemble Department of the University of the Philippines College of Music, and Artistic Director of the Las Piñas International Bamboo Organ Festival.
She is a first prize winner at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Graduate Conducting Competition. She also won first prize for the A1 Piano Category of the Philippines’ National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA). She is the Philippine representative to the Asia Pacific Choral Council and was appointed as conductor of the Asia Pacific Youth Choir for its 2018 Season.
About
Recently, she served as one of the artistic directors for the 2023 World Symposium for Choral Music, an event organized by the International Federation for Choral Music. She was also a featured presenter at the 2023 National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. In the same year, she served as guest conductor of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in one of its season concerts.
The 2024 season highlights include serving as guest conductor in a performance of the Bach St. John Passion at the BACH Academie Alden Biesen in Belgium (March), adjudicating at the World Choir Games in New Zealand (July), the Hong Kong Inter-School Choral Festival (February), Singapore International Choral Festival (July), and serving as a clinician at the Voices of Singapore Festival (September) and the Barnsley Youth Choir in the UK (June).
Dr. Shangkuan-Cheng’s conducting, academic, and teaching awards include the Levi Barbour Fellowship from the University of Michigan, the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Award from the Yale School of Music, the Margot Fassler Award and the Hugh Giles Prize from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the 2022 - 2024 One UP Professorial Chair Award in Music for Outstanding Creative Work and Public Service, and the 2023 UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair.
Performance and adjudication engagements have brought her to South Africa, Germany, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Spain, Vietnam, Portugal, Singapore, and the US. She also regularly leads workshops in different parts of the Philippines.
Dr. Shangkuan-Cheng received a Bachelor of Music (summa cum laude) from the University of the Philippines, a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan
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