Jing Ling-Tam

Jing Ling-Tam is a professor of music who has garnered international recognition in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Ling-Tam has conducted over 35 All-State Choirs and numerous American Choral Directors Association national and divisional honor choirs. An innovative and much sought after clinician/master teacher, she has been featured as a headliner at prestigious international, national, regional, and state choral conferences.

As director of choral studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, her choirs performed at national and regional ACDA conferences, Texas Music Educators Association Conferences, and toured in the US, Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Austria. Ling-Tam served as associate conductor, chorus master, and principal coach pianist for the Ft. Worth Opera Association for 16 seasons, and was on the faculty at the American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria for 11 summers.

Ling-Tam’s other credits include conducting the Taipei Symphony, the Coro de Madrigalistas of Mexico, and presenting workshops and lectures for the Children’s Palaces of NingBo, Xiamen and GuangZho in China; Festival 500, the Ontario Vocal Festival & Choral Conductors' Symposium, Podium 2008, the 2006 International Youth Choral Festival, and the 2007 and 2009 Salzburg Pedagogical Institute Winter Workshops. Ling-Tam also served on juries for the 2007 Third World Children's Choral Festival, , the Spittal an der Drau 45th International Choral Competition in Austria, and the 2008 World Choir Games in Austria.

She conducted the 2010 Australian National Choral Association’s Honor Choir and was a member of the international jury for the 2010 World Choir Games in China. Ling-Tam serves on the board of Chorus America.