Born in Taichung in 1992, Brian Liao aspired to be a conductor from a young age. Although he began learning music as a teenager, he said his journey as a conductor truly began when he joined the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO)’s Youth Orchestra Camp.
In 1624, the Dutch East India Company constructed a fortress named Fort Oranje on the western side of the Taijiang Inland Sea in Tayouan (now Tainan’s Anping area) in southern Taiwan. Four years later, the fortress was later renamed Fort Zeelandia, which was the most important trading post for the VOC in the 17th-century East Asia.