# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jahja-ling
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:29:40.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jahja-ling"
name: "Jahja Ling"
slug: "jahja-ling"
description: "Jahja Ling is an Indonesian conductor, music director and pianist. From 2004 to 2017, he was the music director and conductor at the San Diego Symphony. Following his retirement in 2017, he plans to do guest conducting, as well as teaching and volunteering. He is of Hokkien Chinese descent, formerly an Indonesian citizen and is now an American citizen. He was the first conductor of Chinese descent to serve as music director of a major U.S. orchestra."
tagline: "American conductor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jahja_Ling_conductor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1951-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.152629333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1580619"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahja_Ling"
    title: "Jahja Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahja_Ling"
    title: "Jahja Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahja_Ling"
    title: "Jahja Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahja_Ling"
    title: "Jahja Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E6%9C%9B%E5%82%91"
    title: "林望傑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/71ef99b4-60bd-45b1-927c-c0e267939597"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4260212"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump