As the Director of the THUSC, Ding Yi has led the ensemble to significant international and national acclaim. Highlights include performing at the 13th China International Chorus Festival and winning the Gold Medal at the 2016 Beijing College Student Music Festival. Under her direction, the choir achieved the Golden Diploma at the 4th European Choir Games & Grand Prix of Nations in Gothenburg (2019) and won First Prize at the National College Student Art Festival in both 2018 and 2021. Her debut album, Wind, was released in 2018 by HD-Hall (China).
Ding as the assistant conductor of China Youth Symphony Orchestra rehearsed Verdi’s opera Aida in the 2nd Opera Festival of China in 2014. In 2017, as a guest conductor for the 3rd International Oboe Festival at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), she performed with the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra and oboe soloist Christoph Hartmann of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Ding has collaborated with multiple orchestras and choirs, including China National Opera House with its opera group, orchestra and choir, the Orchestra of China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, Harbin Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Besançon Franche-Comté, Chamber Orchestra of Curtis Institute of Music, Yale Camerata Choir.
