Dwight Bigler
Dwight Bigler is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Virginia Tech where he conducts the VT Chamber Singers and has taught choral literature, choral arranging, conducting, and orchestration. Under his direction, the VT Chamber Singers has performed in Carnegie Hall, at VMEA, and throughout Italy, Ireland, and Spain. He has led concerts and workshops throughout the United States and in Austria, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Indonesia, and Italy. Dwight is also the Music Director of the Blacksburg Master Chorale and regularly conducts masterworks for choir and orchestra. Bigler’s compositions have won a number of awards, including commissions by the Barlow Endowment, the NCCO composition contest, and The American Prize (2023, for his environmental oratorio for choir and orchestra, Mosaic for Earth), and are published by Alliance, Boosey & Hawkes, E.C. Schirmer, Hinshaw, Just a Theory Press, Oxford, and Walton Music. Bigler holds degrees from Brigham Young University (B.M. in Piano Performance, M.M. in Choral Conducting) and The University of Texas at Austin (D.M.A. in Choral Conducting), with cognates in composition throughout.
Ting-Ting Yang
Ting-Ting Yang is a versatile collaborative pianist and multi-genre composer from Taiwan, currently serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Collaborative Piano at Virginia Tech, whose artistry spans major international stages and diverse educational settings. As a distinguished collaborative pianist, she has served as a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Brevard Music Festival and has held staff pianist positions at prestigious events, including the Jacobs Summer String Academy at Indiana University, the Thailand International Trombone Festival and the Bass Around Asia Festival in Taiwan. Her performance highlights include performing at Musiqa’s 20th Anniversary Concert (Houston, TX) and recording Anthony Brandt’s chamber opera Kassandra. Simultaneously, as an innovative composer, Yang's work has earned international recognition; her award-winning orchestral composition, Portal, received premieres in both the United States (East Carolina University) and Asia (YST Conservatory, Singapore). Known for works often inspired by Taiwanese culture and her co-founding of the H-Tone Electroacoustic Ensemble, her music has been performed in major venues. Yang received her primary training in piano from a roster of esteemed teachers including Virginia Weckstrom, Kevin Murphy and Anne Epperson, and in composition from Ching-Yu Hsiau and Ho Chee Kong.