Yuxin Dai is a conductor and pianist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently on the faculty of the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus and occasionally collaborates with the National Children’s Chorus , the Young Women’s Choral Projects and Peninsula Girls Choir. She serves as the music director of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church and conductor of Star Valley Choral Center. Before coming to San Francisco, she was the Assistant Conductor of the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestras at the Bienen School of Music.

An active conductor, Dai has worked with orchestras and festivals across the U.S. and abroad. She made her debut at the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival in 2018, assisting in a performance of Carmina Burana with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. The following year, she led the finale of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at the CCM Summer Opera Festival. Her recent engagements include masterclasses with the Spokane Symphony and Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, guest conducting at the Hawaii International Music Festival, and competition appearances at the Miami Music Festival, Jeunesses Musicales Bucharest (2020), and the International Marktoberdorf and Los Angeles Conducting Competitions (both 2022).

As a choral conductor, Dai has directed many choirs, such as the New England Conservatory Chamber Singers, Shanghai International Choral League, Shanghai Conservatory Choir, and Fudan University Student Choir. Dai was the youngest contestant in the Third China Choral Conducting Competition in 2017. In 2018, she led the Shanghai CEIBS choir to win the Silver Medal at the World Choir Games in Tshwane, South Africa. As a pianist, Dai has assisted many orchestras and choirs. She completed multiple concerts with the Northwestern Symphony Orchestra, serving as an orchestral pianist. Dai also served as an accompanist for the NEC Chamber Singers, Shanghai International Choral League, and Shanghai Conservatory Choir.

Dai holds Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University and the New England Conservatory of Music and completed her undergraduate studies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China. Her mentors include many world-renowned maestros, such as Victor Yampolsky, Donald Schleicher, Donald Nally. She also studied with Johannes Schlaefli, James Lowe, Ken-David Masur, Lydia yankovskaya and Neil Thomson in masterclasses.