The Heritage Chorale

Wen Chin Liu-Young

Heritage Chorale Leaders

Tehra Hiolski has served as accompanist for Heritage Chorale since 1990. She taught general music in Oak Park's elementary school district for 24 years and accompanies many area musicians in both recital and competition. She taught piano privately for 16 years, has worked with the Merit music program in Chicago, and has served as organist and pianist at Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Oak Park. A native of Oak Park, she received her bachelor’s degree in music education from Michigan State University and her master’s degree in music education from VanderCook College in Chicago.

Tehra Hiolski

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 will make 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).

Wen Chin Liu-Young 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.

Heritage Chorale Board of Directors
2024-2025

Sarah Campbell, President
Tim Divis, Vice President
Barbara Hofmaier, Secretary
Sam Hohmann, Treasurer

Kurt Amolsch

Cathy Bachman

Nancy Ball

Heather Comiskey

Rebecca McLane

Mary Rogan