Winner of the 50th Besançon International Young Conductor’s Competition in 2007, he was awarded the Grand Prix by the distinguished jury which included Michel Plasson and Yan-Pascal Tortelier, the ‘Prix du Public’ as audience favourite, as well as the top vote of the musicians of the festival orchestra, the Orchestre national d'île-de-France. He was also the winner of the 9th Antonio Pedrotti International Competition for Conductors’ in 2006.

Born in Singapore, Darrell Ang studied with composer Leong Yoon-Pin and played the violin, piano and bassoon. He later graduated summa cum laude from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and Yale University, and has also studied at masterclasses with Jorma Panula and Sir Colin Davis.

In 2001 he co-founded the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic and was a frequent guest-conductor at the St. Petersburg Opera, working closely with soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre Academy of Young Singers. He has conducted widely in Russia, including performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra; in Europe with the Hradec Králove Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquestra de Cadaqués, and the ‘Orchestra Haydn di Trento e Bolzano’; in Asia with the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra; as well as in North America with the Orchestra of the National Arts Centre of Canada and the UNAM Orchestra of Mexico.