{"id":14379,"date":"2014-04-03T06:19:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T06:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=14379"},"modified":"2014-04-21T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:48:46","slug":"baylor-alum-named-kapellmeister-of-famous-vienna-boys-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2014\/04\/baylor-alum-named-kapellmeister-of-famous-vienna-boys-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor alum named ‘Kapellmeister’ of famous Vienna Boys Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jimmy<\/p>\n

Hong Kong native Jimmy Chiang, <\/a>BM ’00, came to Baylor in 1995 to further his musical talents; since then, his skill as a conductor has taken him all over the world. Now, he’s traveling the globe with some of the world’s best young singers after reaching a new height in his career — leading the world-renowned Vienna Boys Choir<\/a>, a choir that has featured such legendary names as Mozart and Schubert as singers in their centuries-old history.<\/p>\n

As Kapellmeister<\/a> of the Vienna Boys Choir, Chiang will be leading a worldwide tour that will take the choir across Europe, Japan, and eventually, the United States. The history of the Vienna Boys Choir stretches back centuries; since the 14th century<\/a>, the choir has performed almost continuously, and today it features 100 choristers between the ages of 10 and 14.<\/p>\n

Chiang was already well known in the music world for his skill on the piano, as a conductor, and in such varied worlds as opera and symphony before ascending to this new role. In fact, he was recognized for his prodigious musical ability as a teenager, receiving a diploma from a London college of music at age 16, and chose to earn his undergraduate degree in Baylor’s School of Music<\/a> (where he also met his wife, Anna, MM ’99). Far from a surprise, Chiang’s career success was predicted in the Lariat<\/i><\/a> nearly 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Jimmy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong native Jimmy Chiang, BM ’00, came to Baylor in 1995 to further his musical talents; since then, his skill as a conductor has taken him all over the world. Now, he’s traveling the globe with some of the world’s best young singers after reaching a new height in his career — leading the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}