Wen Chin Liu-Young, appointed artistic director of Heritage Chorale in June 2022, is also lecturer at Benedictine University in Lisle, director of choirs at Harper College in Palatine, and music coordinator at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Arlington Heights. She received her doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting and pedagogy from the University of Iowa, where she studied with Timothy Stalter and David Puderbaugh.

Wen Chin began her music education in her native Malaysia with piano lessons at the age of seven. She graduated as a piano major from University College Sedaya International in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in classical music. At that time she also obtained her Trinity College Piano Licentiate in Music Diploma and Trinity Guildhalls Vocal Performance Certificate, both with distinction. In 2009, she came to the United States to pursue her master’s degree in choral conducting at Bowling Green State University, graduating in 2011.

Wen Chin is an active performer. From 2005 to 2009 she sang in choirs that won international choral competitions in Asia. She has sung with Bach Festival Malaysia, performing the Mass in B Minor, the Passion According to St. Matthew, and several cantatas. In 2017–2020 she sang in Canticum Novum’s recording project on the music of Horatio Parker and performed with the University of Iowa’s Kantorei. Among other musical engagements, she served as the collaborative pianist for the Downers Grove Choral Society in the 2021–2022 season.

Wen Chin began her career as a music educator in 2005 at the Young Choral Academy in Malaysia, where she served as choir director, director of musicals, pianist, and vocal tutor. As a graduate assistant at Bowling Green State University, she conducted the women’s ensemble Fermatas for two years. From 2011 to 2015, she was the music director at St. Ursula Academy (Toledo, Ohio). During the summers of 2017–2019, she was guest conductor for the Malaysia Institute of Arts choruses in performances that included Haydn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo and Vivaldi’s Gloria. In 2021–2024 she directed the Take Note ensemble in Lisle, Illinois. She has also frequently led choral workshops and served as juror for choral competitions in Malaysia. In May 2025, Wen Chin made her Carnegie Hall debut, conducting Heritage Chorale, together with Ebell of Los Angeles and Waukesha Choral Union, in Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de Confessore (K. 339).