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Danh T. Pham (Pullman, WA) is the Music Director for both the Washington-Idaho Symphony Orchestra and the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra. He currently serves as Conductor of the WSU Symphony Orchestra and Director of Bands at Washington State University.
Dr. Pham was recently named the 2024 Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) College/University Teacher of the Year and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) Music Teacher of the Year. This past March, he was inducted into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association, where he made his conducting debut with the United States Army Band (Pershing’s Own) in Washington D.C.
Dr. Pham maintains a busy conducting schedule that includes international appearances throughout Asia. He is a conductor for JCLink Music Publications recordings and clinics that serves several cities in mainland China, staffed by a team of artists and teachers from China, the United States, Japan, Canada, and Hong Kong. He has taught at Guangzhou University and conducted the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace Youth Symphony and Wind Ensemble, the Yucai Concert Band, the Foreign Language School Wind Band, and the Canton Military Band. Other guest appearances include positions with the Wuhan Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony, Huazhong Agricultural University Symphonic Band, the Ho Chi Minh Conservatory of Music, and the Vietnam National Academy of Music. Professionally, he has conducted the Guang Xi Symphony Orchestra (Nanning, China) in their Gala Concert for the All South East Asia Nations New Music Week Celebration, the Saigon Wind Ensemble (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), and the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet Orchestra (Hanoi, Vietnam). In the Summer of 2025, he will return to China and begin new conducting travels in Tokyo, Japan.