During HGO’s 2026-27 season, David Chan makes his company debut conducting The Magic Flute. After 25 seasons as concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, he now serves as Artistic Director of the Taipei Music Academy and Festival;  as Music Director of the Apollo Orchestra in the Washington, D.C. area; and as Director of the Credo Festival, an orchestral training institute held annually in Chicago’s Symphony Center. He was previously Music Director of the APEX Ensemble, with which he earned high praise for innovative and adventurous programming, and Music Director of Camerata Notturna. His guest conducting engagements in recent seasons have included Belgium's l'Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, and l’Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne in France; the Grant Park and Classical Tahoe summer festivals; the Juilliard Orchestra and Manhattan School of Music in New York City; and Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot, where the festival orchestra comprises musicians from the Metropolitan Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and all of the top orchestras in Paris. Chan became Professor of Violin at Rice University’s prestigious Shepherd School of Music in 2025, while continuing his roles on the Juilliard faculty and as Head of the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music through the 2026-27 school year.