Assistant Conductor, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra
Evansville Philharmonic Chorus Conductor
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Maestro Joseph Eunkwan Choi is currently serving as Assistant Conductor of Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and Conductor of Evansville Philharmonic Chorus.  Concurrently, he is also serving as an Assistant Conductor of Owensboro Symphony Orchestra (KY), Music Director & Conductor of Owensboro Symphony Youth Orchestras and as Director of Music with Eastminster Presbyterian Church (IN).

In the past, he served as an Artistic Director of Maryland Chamber Orchestra, Assistant Conductor of Asheville Symphony and Southern Adventist University Symphony Orchestra.  Also, he served as cover conductor for the Phoenix Youth Symphony Orchestra, University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra and guest conducted Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra and Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea (with the invitation from Maestro Shinik Hahm, Professor of Conducting at Yale University). Maestro Choi’s guest conducting engagement with Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in concert in South Korea was sold-out and received overwhelming response from critics and audiences alike. 

During his Graduate Studies, he served for three years as Assistant Conductor of University of Maryland Chorus and Chorale.  He studied Choral Conducting at the University of Maryland at College Park while working toward his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA).  During this time, he also taught conducting courses for music majors and served as full-scholarship Doctoral Graduate Assistant.  His major orchestral conducting studies were with Otto Werner-Mueller, Kirk Trevor, Tsung Yeh and Harold Farberman.  Maestro Choi received his Masters of Music (MM) with emphasis in orchestral conducting at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music in Connecticut. 

Maestro Choi has conducted many fine ensembles, which include Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Lisboa Metropolitan Orchestra (Portugal), Jeju Symphony Orchestra (S. Korea), Beethoven Chamber Orchestra, U.S. Army Field Band and Chorus, U.S. Bolling Air Force Band, Knoxville Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Chorus, Western Massachusetts Youth Symphony, University of Maryland Symphony, and many festival ensembles.  He has been a fellow conductor at the Conductor's Institute in Hartford, Le Forget Music Festival in Canada and Zlin's International Symphonic Workshop for Domaine Conductor's in the Czech Republic. In March 2001, Maestro Choi made his conducting debut at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall conducting Price George’s High School All-County Orchestra where his concert was sold out, received rave reviews and was broadcast on the local Prince George County's Educational Channel.

In 2001, Maestro Choi received an invitation from the Korean Conductors Association to compete in its first Conductor's Competition in late August, 2001 and was also one of only eight conductors from around the world to be invited to compete in Portugal's Fundação Oriente International Conductor's Competition in September, 2001.  Recently, Maestro Choi was invited to compete in Besançon Conducting Competition and also was a winner of International Conducting Workshop in Macon, Georgia.  As a result of this, Maestro Choi was invited to study with Yuri Temirkanov and guest conducted St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia in July and August, 2005.

He is married to Angela Choi (Jin-Hui Jang) and they reside in Evansville, IN.