Zhiming Han, Executive Director

Born in Shanghai , Mr. Han is an award winning composer, World Class Chinese instruments virtuoso, and voting member for Grammy Award. His orchestral film music won the Henry Mancini Film Music Composition Award. His performance credits include CD albums “Celestial Echo”, Chinese New Age “ Morning of the forest”, and concerts with Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pacific Symphony, others Symphonies , Jackie Chan’s and Disney’s movies. He has worked with Oscar-winning Hollywood composers such as James Horner and John Williams in movie soundtracks. Described as “Topping out of Applause Here … Fantastic” by KCET, his performances at Los Angeles Music Center were telecast nationally on PBS in 2002 and 2006. In China, CCTV primary time broadcast his full orchestra music with TV dramas, performed by Shanghai symphony and other major orchestras.  In1986, Han came to USA, and completed academic graduate study in music composition at UCLA. As the founder and Executive Director of Los Angeles Chinese Orchestra, he produces, composes and performs as a music recording artist for various media including concerts and soundtracks for film, TV series, and video game productions including two performances at Disney Concert Hall (2004), CCTV 26-episode series “The Guests of Ice Mountain” (2005), feature films “16 Blocks” (2006), and X-Box video game “Jade Empire” (2006), and 20th century Fox TV movie “Bones” (2007).

Linda Louie,

Board Member & Secretary

Ms. Linda Louie has a Master’s degree in Social Work. She has dedicated twenty-six years of her career in public service, serving children, families, and elders. Ms. Louie currently holds a title of an Administrator III at the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, overseeing the operations of Family Court Service and Probate Investigations. Ms. Louie has extensive experience with grant administration. In her professional capacity, she manages two federal grants and one grant from a private foundation. She is knowledgeable about budget, fiscal accountability, and program sustainability. Ms. Louie was a former board member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Court (AFCC ) from 1996 to 2002. She is on the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Family Law Section. In her spare time, Ms. Louie enjoys playing Yang Qing (the Chinese Butterfly Harp), an instrument she has learned for five years. She enjoys Chinese music and the promotion of Chinese culture. She is also a tea connoisseur. 

Candy Lee,

Board Member &Treasurer

Candy Lee is currently the controller of a leading computer network company located in Fountain Valley, California. As a controller, Candy provides leadership and coordination of company financial planning, debt financing, and budget management functions. She began her career in Fresno, CA where she received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting. Working only two years as an accountant, Candy’s persistent nature as well as her drive for success immediately established her position as a young controller in Los Angeles, CA. Candy continued to uphold this position for several reputable companies, accumulating more than two decades of manufacturing and retailing experience. As a former San Gabriel Valley chapter president of the National Association of Accountants, Candy committed six years making significant contributions back into the community. This non-profit organization is devoted to stimulating the young minds of local high school students about the general accounting profession. Its objectives may include: directing informational seminars and scholarship for future prospecting students, providing educational materials to local schools and libraries, and participating in local philanthropies. Although fairly new in the Chinese music arena, Candy’s five years journey of taking Chinese music instrument lessons has made a tremendous impact in her life. She has come to appreciate music and feels that is has helped her find relaxation from her daily hectic life. By joining this music organization, Candy hopes to share many experiences and her newfound joy with people that have the same passion for music。 

 Dr. Chingmuh Lee,

President

Dr. Chingmuh Lee is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. On January 12, 2002, Dr. Lee was chosen as a torchbearer from out of more than 200,000 nominated to carry the Olympic torch a quarter mile down Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles. Other than contributing in his professional field, he has a passion in promoting Chinese culture and music in the community.  

Dr.

Teresa Sun,

Board Member

Dr. Teresa Sun received her PhD in Higher Education and Human Service from Seton Hall University, New Jersey in 1995. She has taught Asian Study courses in UC Irvine and Cal State Univ. Long Beach, Whittier College, USC and Cal State LA since 1960s. As a community leader, she has served as program chair and president of China Society of Southern California, 1975-1995, program chair in the Rolling Hills Estates Women Club (1981-now), board member of Multicultural Committee of the Community Association of Peninsula, and the Theatre Management Board of the Norris Center of the Performance Arts. In 2003, she was appointed to the Professional Women’s Advisory Board, by the American Biographical Institute, Inc. and she was awarded “Agnes R. Moss Volunteer Award, Community Association of the Peninsula. Dr. Sun has extensive experiences in volunteering, fundraising and organizing cultural events in the community. 

Dr. Wanda Bryant,

Board Member 

Dr. Wanda Bryant received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1995. She has taught in the Music Department at Pasadena City College since 1995 and in the World Music program at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA, since 2002. She has a strong interest in Chinese music and has studied the long zither, guzheng, for seven years. As part of her duties at both schools, she has contacted and scheduled guest artists and has been involved in the production of various concerts. Prior to moving to Los Angeles for graduate school, she received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Drake University in Des Moines, IA, in 1975. She taught at several schools in Iowa, and was responsible for all aspects of concert organization and fund raising, including scheduling concerts and coordinating all involved personnel, all student preparation (grades K-12), the physical set-up of the concert, selling tickets, and creating the programs. She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of her condo homeowners association and has dealt with problem solving, finances, scheduling, and human relations. 

Cynthia Hsiang,

Board Member

Cynthia Hsiang , award-winnig Gu-zheng (Chinese long- zither) soloist, with Ph.D. Candidate and Master Degrees in ethnomusicology from UCLA. She currently teaches at Pasadena City College. She has been featured in numerous concerts and recordings in Taiwan, US and Europe, and has premiered many contemporary works with symphony orchestras including Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Opera, Sacramental Camellia Symphony and Madrid International Theater Festival. In 2002 and 2006, PBS broadcast her performance at Los Angeles Music Center nationally. Her performance credits include a solo zheng recital at Taiwan National Music Hall, movie soundtracks for Jackie Chan’s movie, M-Box video game “Jade Empire”, and two CD albums “Nocturne in Autumn Palace” and “High Mountain and Flowing Water”.