Equally adept at conducting symphony, opera, and ballet, Judith Yan has held Staff Conductor positions at San Francisco Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and National Ballet of Canada. 

Since 2021, she has had a close association with Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, conducting programmes ranging from Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Dvorak, to Gipps, Richter, and Copland. A strong supporter of new works, she has conducted numerous world-premieres including An American Dream (Perla/Murphy) for Seattle Opera, Dracula (Pastor/Kilar) for West Australian Ballet, February (Kaminsky/Moore) and Ours (Estacio/Chafe) for Opera on the Avalon, of which she is Music Director and Principal Conductor.

Yan’s performances include Don Giovanni and Suor Angelica with Opera Omaha, Madama Butterflywith New Orleans Opera, Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis’s Stuck Elevator with Knoxville Opera, Jack Perla and Jessica Murphy’s An America Dream and The Nutcracker (Janes) with Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater (Indiana University Bloomington), The Rape of Lucretia with San Francisco Opera (Merola), Grigorovich’s La Bayadère and Swan Lake with Korean National Ballet, Don Quixote with Hong Kong Ballet. 

Upcoming 25/26 season includes a nation-wide broadcast of Jane’s The Nutcracker on PBS, Puccini’s Tosca and programmes of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Pergolesi with Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra. In Europe, she makes her Norwegian National Ballet and Opera debut with Cynthia Harvey’s production of Giselle at the Oslo Opera House and her  English National Ballet debut at the London Coliseum. In the US, she makes her Opera Grand Rapids debut with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and returns to Indiana University Bloomington Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater as Visiting Scholar and Conductor with a program of works by choreographers Sasha Janes and George Balanchine.