Pingyi Song

Dr. Pingyi Song is the Director of Choral Activities, and Assistant Professor at Coker University, South Carolina. Song is an active conductor, clinician, and music educator for multiple professional, collegiate, and community choirs in the United States and China. Song’s world premiere performance with the University of North Carolina, Greensboro Chamber Singers was selected as a National Finalist for the American Prize 2022 Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music. Her most recent research study “Gender Issues and A Brief Introduction of Choral Literature by Eastern Asian Female Composers” was invited to present at the 2023 National ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the 2023 ACMI (Asian Classical Music Initiative) International Conference at Rutgers University, New Jersey. As an original Chinese musician, she is dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between Western Music and Eastern Asian Music. Song was also selected as a National Graduate Conducting Fellow for the NCCO (National Collegiate Choral Organization) 9th Conference in 2021. Pingyi Song holds a Choral Summer School Certificate from Oxford University, U.K., a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting and a Post-Bachelorette Certificate in Music Education from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Master and Bachelor degrees from West Virginia University, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, and Guangzhou University, China.