Conductor and pianist Conrad Chu has over 25 years as a director of community and academic choruses, with affinity for both classical and contemporary genres. Since 2017 he has music directed the North River Sing Community Chorus, a Jersey City mixed choir dedicated to preserving the Great American Songbook tradition. He is also a director of Chinese American choruses, and has served as chorusmaster for the New Jersey Symphony’s Chinese New Year Festival. Conrad’s most recent academic post was Director of Performance at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he directed the Union College Chorale and the Union College Community Orchestra. By training an orchestral conductor, Conrad actively free-lances in New York’s orchestral and operatic scenes. Opera companies where he has music directed or assisted include Santa Fe Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, American Opera Projects, Bronx Opera, Brooklyn Repertory Opera, Beth Morrison Productions, Rhymes With Opera, and Victory Hall Opera. In the orchestral scene, Conrad has conducted a range of community ensembles, including the Litha Symphony, Queer Urban Orchestra, Hunter College Symphony, Gemini Youth Orchestras and the Queens Symphony. In 2023, Conrad began a new role as Orchestra and Chamber Music Coordinator for Bloomingdale School of Music in Manhattan.