Central Conservatory of Music

Bo Dai

Composer ,Pianist , Harpsichordist,PhD in Composition and the Lecturer of Composition Department at Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), Beijing.

He won second place in the 2014 Beethoven Association International Composition Competition, and his award-winning work "Invisible Mountains" has toured in Poland, Norway, and the United States. Dai Bo is hailed by the renowned composer Krzysztof Penderecki as “one of the most talented young composers among his peers.” Rachel Copper, the art director of the US Asian Society, praised that "Dai Bo has incredible composing talent, comparable with any great composer. He is proficient in history and philosophy, integrates the East and West, and convey the universe in his music.”

As a composer, his works have been be reviewed favourably，such as "Wojski's Horn Concerto

"（2015） commissioned by Mickiewicz University in Poland, the piano suite "Disappeared Landscapes" published by Cook Music/Kuke Music , "Prisoner's Womb" for flute quintet published by Dux commissioned by Poland , and the cello album"Gu JiaYe" published in collaboration with cellist Namula. His vocal suite"The Call of Dawn" was funded by China National Arts Fund for Young Artistic Talents. He was the only composer to create original music for the large ten-episode documentary "The Journey of Chinese Plants ". His latest works include the large-scale vocal suite"Wanli Changsha" and the violin concerto "Saudade", which premiered in September and December 2021, respectively.

As a performer, Dai Bo has been invited to give solo concerts and personal works concerts in New York, Morelia, Shanghai, and Beijing. He has also given solo piano/harpsichord concerts at the Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and the Morelia City Hall, and has collaborated with many world-class performers in major music festivals and cultural events...?

Tang Jianping

Composer, a professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, and the first Chinese composer to earn a doctoral degree in composition. Tang Jianping has won numerous awards, including the National Symphony Works Competition, the National Culture Award, the "Five-One" Project of the Central Propaganda Department, and the National Stage Art Excellent Creation Project. He has also been awarded the National Excellent Teacher Award, the National Teaching Achievement First Prize, and the Baogang Outstanding Teacher Special Award.

Tang Jianping's music works have been widely performed around the world.

In 2018, his opera "The 170 Days in Nanking/Die Tagebücher von John Rabe" was selected for the Original Creation Award of the 2018 International Opera Awards. He has also performed at the Berlin Opera House in Germany and the Vienna Ronacher Opera House.

His opera "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" was jointly performed by the National Grand Theater of China and the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and Moscow in October 2018. His opera "The 170 Days in Nanking/Die Tagebücher von John Rabe" has been performed in cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Nara, Lincoln Center in the United States, and Taiwan（China）. His opera "The Grand Canal" won the Grand Prize at the 2nd China Opera Festival.

His major works including: the operas "The 170 Days in Nanking/Die Tagebücher von John Rabe", "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", "The Grand Canal", "Songs of Youth", "Zheng He" and"Voyage To The East-A Fearless Buddhist Master’s Mission To Japan". He has also composed the dance dramas "Jingwei" and "Shaolin in the Wind"; The musicals "Clouds Over the Mountain" and "Love Warms the Tianshan Mountains"; The large-scale symphony "Shenzhou Harmony"; The epic Mongolian symphony "Genghis Khan"; The national orchestral symphonic poem "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" and "Yang Osang"; The cantatas "White Horse Enters the Reed Flowers" and "The Road". The pipa concerto "Spring and Autumn"；The symphonic concerto "Olympic Flame-2008"; The percussion concerto "Cangcai"; The dizi concerto "Feige"; The guqin concerto "Clouds and Water"；The guzheng concerto "Luoshen"；"the first piano concerto"；The national orchestral works "Houtu" and "Tianren"；The nonet "Xuanhuang," and the string quartet "Kuizhuo."

Dong Liqiang

Professor and Doctoral Advisor of the Composition Department at the Central Conservatory of Music

Dong Liqiang was born in 1963 in Qingdao, Shandong Province. In 1990 Dong Liqiang graduated early with honors from the Composition Department of the CCOM, after which he was invited to join the faculty staff of the department. From 1992 to 1997, he studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music under Professor Minami Hiroaki, and received his master’s degree in music composition. He afterwards returned to the CCOM to continue teaching in the Composition Department. From 2000 to 2006, he studied under the guidance of Professor Wu Zuqiang and received his doctoral degree in music composition.

Works composed by Dong Liqiang cover a wide range of genres and have been played both in China and abroad. These works include:

Orchestral works: Dream on the Maple River, A Spring Impression, Distance, Source, Threnody. 

Chamber music: Wind Through Pine Trees, for bass, xun and zheng; Overlapping, for oboe, clarinet and bassoon; Ode to the Sounds of Autumn, for flute and piano, Sparse Shadows for zhongruan and percussion, Fusion for flute, clarinet and viola.

Vocal songs: News of Paradise, a Loving Heart, Farewell to Childhood.

Chorus: A Night Visit to the Palace, A Phoenix Resting on a Chinese Parasol Tree, Our Dream Home.

Dance Music: The Sparks of the Jinggang Mountain.

Film and TV Drama Music: Out of Amazon, The Strong Mountain Pass, the Eighth Route Army, the Sky of the History, The Firmament of the Pleiades, the First of August, Home, A Solitary Regiment, Loyalty and Betrayal.  

The works of Dong Liqiang involve diverse themes and artistic styles, and reflect his distinctive voice and artistic character.

Chang Ping, Ph.D., Professor of Composition and Deputy Director of the Composition Department at the Central Conservatory of Music, is among the first batch of the institution's dual-specialization doctoral supervisors. As a visiting scholar, Chang went to Berlin University of the Arts in 2009. He received four Wenhua awards, including one first prize for his “Concerto for Orchestra". His"Wind Strings" for Chinese ensemble was awarded the Gold Prize by the Tracitional Chinese Musical Instruments Association.

In June 2015, Chang's symphonic music concert was programed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China by the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra.

In October 2015, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, and commissioned by the China National Opera House, Chang composed his three-act opera "My Mother's Name is Taihang" for the 70th anniversary of the Anti-Fascists victory; the work was well received after its premiere at the Beijing Century Theatre. in 2017, the work was chosen to be included in the National Stage Arts Project.

In August 2019, the Harbin Symphony Orchestra held a dedicated concert for Changs symphonic works at Harbin Concert Hall.

His symphonic works Singularity and Black Light was programed at Carnegie Hall in New York, in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

His choral symphony suite Glorious Shenzhou received supports from the National Arts Fund's Stage Art and Symphony project in 2022.

In 2016, the five-act dance drama "Ode to Han", dedicated for the Hanzhong Opera and Dance Drama Theatre in Shaanxi Province, received supports from China National Arts Funds for itinerant performances.

In addition, Chang published his monograph "Analysis of the Selected Orchestral Works in the Twentieth Century" . He was chosen to be included in the "Four Batches" talent development plan of Beijing’s official public and cultural system. In 2018, Naxos Records released Chang's Symphonic works and sent the album on behalf of Chang for Grammy Awards’ candidacy.

Chang also serves as one of the official judges of the American Chinese Musicians’ Association, and the CCTV Instrumental Music Performance Competition.

Tian Tian has been studying music with his father since childhood. He studied composition at the Central Conservatory of Music for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. In 2017, he graduated from the doctoral program under the guidance of the renowned composer Professor Qin Wenchen, and stayed on as a faculty member with excellent performance. Currently, He is an Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor in the Composition Department and Theory Research Office at the Central Conservatory of Music

His compositions cover various forms of music, including orchestral music, symphonic poems, chamber music, chamber operas, dance dramas, and traditional Chinese music. His works have a wide range of themes and are diverse. His works have been performed in many places at home and abroad, and have received strong responses from the music industry.

His work "Concerto for Orchestra" won the George Enescu International Competition for Symphonic Music in Romania in September 2016 after being strictly evaluated by a jury composed of seven top European composers, including Cornel Taranu, Adrian Iorgulescu, Dan Dediu, Zygmunt Krauze, Hubert Stuppner, Peter Ruzicka, and Tim Benjamin. This is the highest award a Chinese composer has won in this competition. The winning work was premiered by the Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra at the Athenaum Music Hall in Bucharest, Romania. He was also invited to participate in the International Young Composers Forum at the Enescu Festival in 2017. In September 2018, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company introduced and interviewed him, and broadcasted his string orchestra work "the Edge of the River" nationwide. In addition, in May 2013, after multiple evaluations by a jury chaired by the Finnish contemporary composer Kaija Saariaho, his symphonic poem "Ring on August" stood out from 35 works worldwide and won the Beijing Modern Music Festival Symphony Music Award (and "The 4th Young Composer Project") championship.

Hao Weiya

Born in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 1971, Mr. Hao studied with renowned Chinese composition

Professor Zuqiang Wu and obtained his doctoral degree at the Central Conservatory of Music in

Beijing in 1999. Currently Mr. Hao is a professor at the Composition Department of the Central

conservatory of Music. Visiting scholar at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy

（2006-07）and Columbia University in New York, U.S.）2014-15）

Orchestral compositions

1994 Orchestral painting ‘North of the Mountain, South of the Cloud’

1999 Cello Concerto ‘Ode to the Sea’

2002 Piece for the Chinese traditional orchestra ‘Legend II’, which was awarded the Second Prize at the Ninth National Competition for Traditional Orchestral Compositions)

2002 Piece for Orchestra and Choir ‘The Sky and the Earth—Taipo’, ‘Moon of Guan Mountain (text by Jingting Han, which was awarded the Golden Bell Prize by the Department of National Culture,

2004 Piano Concerto ‘Yangtze River’

2005 Symphony No. 1 ‘In Memoriam’

2009 Concerto for the Chinese Flute ‘Blossoming in the Spring’

2010 Orchestral Piece ‘Yellow River Fantasie’

2017 Concerto for the Chinese Sheng ‘The Path of Gladness’

2017 Concerto for the Chinese Erhu ‘Fountain of Tears’

Stage compositions

2004 ‘Love for the Nature’, music for Guizhou Acrobatic Team(awarded one of the ten outstanding artistic projects nationwide);

Motion Musical ‘Terracotta Warriors’, which was premiered in the United States and Canada in May 2004

2005 Musical ‘Mulan’

2005 Grandeur Artistic Dance Poem ‘Above the Horizon’, which was awarded ‘The Best Composition for Dance’, by the Fifth National ‘Lotus’ Award for the Excellence in Dance

2006 Ballet ‘Princess of Tang’ (Premiered in the United State); International Standard Dance Drama ‘Song for the Everlasting Regret’.

2008 Commissioned by the National Performance Theatre to re-write the unfinished ending for the Puccini opera ‘Turandot’.

2009 Commissioned by the National Performance Theatre to write an original opera ‘The Village Teacher’.

2013 Commissioned by Shanxi Provincial Theatre to write an original opera ‘The Legend of Patriot’.

2014 Commissioned by Shanghai International Arts Festival and Zhou Xiaoyan Opera Center to write an original opera ‘The River of Spring’.

2016 Commissioned by Chong Qing Theatre to write an original opera ‘Guanyin Hercules ’.

Other music

2000-2007 Music for the film ‘The Father’; TV drama ‘Long Spear in Hand’,

‘A Normal Life’, ‘A Lifetime of Undeserved Love’; ‘The Blooming Sunshine’, ‘Juzheng Zhang’, ‘My Beautiful Life’; Music for the China Tourism Year;

2008 Music for Beijing’s bid for 2008 Olympics(in collaboration with Lei Zhang); Music for the theatrical play ‘The Tea House’, ‘The Lobbyist’

2010 Music for the 2010 World Expo, Shanghai.

2013  Music for the film ‘Phurbu and Tenzin’

Guo Wenjing

Guo Wenjing is a professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music and was the head of the composition department for many years，has devoted himself to country's music education. He has been honored among the Top China Hundred Outstanding Artists. Guo Wenjing's operas are the most performed Chinese operas in the world in the most countries and also the most produced versions of Chinese operas.

Abroad, his works have been featured at festivals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Glasgow, Paris, Edinburgh, New York, Aspen, London, Turin, Perth, Huddersfield, Hong Kong and Warsaw, and at venues like Frankfurt Opera, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and New York’s Lincoln Center.

He has written works for leading ensembles including the Holland Festival, Milan-Turin Art Festival, Festival d’Automne à Paris，the Nieuw Ensemble, Atlas Ensemble, Cincinnati Percussion Ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag, Kronos Quartet, Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Modern, and Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks,China Philharmonic Orchestra, China NCPA Orchestra, Beijing SmphonyOrchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. 

“Special Concerts of Guo Wenjing's Works” 

Performance Orchestra: the China Philharmonic Orchestra (twice), the Central Philharmonic Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra (twice), the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra and the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra.

"Portrait of Guo Wenjing" Concert

Performances in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Turin, Paris, New York, Edinburgh, etc.

His works have been included in the concert tours of major orchestras in Europe and America.Include The China Philharmonic Orchestra, the China National Traditional Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.

His works have been included in the official touring repertoire of world-renowned conductors and orchestras.

Including:

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra,China Tour,Conductor: Neeme Jarvi (1999)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Five Cities Tour in China, Conductor: Fabio Luisi (2018)

Hong Kong Philharmonic,Shanghai,Conductor:Edo de Waart (2018)

Music Review

“Unparalleled musical beauty and dramatic power” (Le Monde)

“Pungent and vivid” (The Guardian)

“Uninhibited and pure” (Het Parool)

“Subtle and unusual” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

“A highly original sense of operatic possibility” (The Independent).

“The only Chinese composer who has never lived abroad but established an international reputation”( New York Times)

Chen Xinruo

Composer

Associate Professor

Head of Teaching and Researching at Central Conservatory of Music

Chen XinRuo, born in Wuhan, China. In 1996, he studies in composition with Prof. Luo Xinmin at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing; obtaining a Masters and Doctoral degree under the renowned Chinese contemporary composer Prof. Guo Wenjing, in 2004 and 2008

respectively. He has been engaged in teaching and research of composition and theory of harmony

at his alma mater since graduation. Chen Xinruo used to be the director of the Harmony Teaching

and Research Section of the Composition Department of CCOM, and is now the deputy discipline

director of the comprehensive theory of music.

In January 2018, his work “Concerto Grosso-for mixed chamber orchestra” premiered at the Lincoln Center in New York, USA. In May 2018, in the sixth session of Liu Tianhua’s Collection of Chamber Music works of Chinese Instruments, he won the first prize for his work "SeJuTeng". In October of the same year, his work "Yun Shao-for Orchestra" premiered at Carnegie Hall, USA. In 2019, two of his works, Erhu Concerto "Ink-Wash Painting by Strings" and Suona Concerto "Banished Immortal", were premiered by Shanghai Chinese Orchestra; In July 2021, National Centre for the Performing Arts commissioned Chen Xinruo to transcribe the Symphonic Suite for orchestra, the original of which was the soundtrack "The Flowers of War" composed by Chen Qigang.

Since 2007, Chen Xinruo has collaborated with the famous Chinese clarinetist Wang Tao to compose and record eight albums. Among them, the fourth album "Send You a Blue Gift for Winter" released in 2006 won the "Best Pop Instrumental Album" at the 18th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards; The album "Love Without Boundaries" released in 2013 won the "Best Composer of Pop Instrumental Album" in the 23rd Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. Works "Abbandono Tango", "Waltz in Summer Palace","Beauty", "Cuddling" composed by Chen Xinruo has become the repertoire of influential musicians in China, including Leiji Chen, Zhao XiaoXia and TO-MELODY Ensemble, and has been frequently performed in concerts all over China.

In 2014, the textbook "Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation" was compiled and published by

the Central Conservatory of Music Press in November 2016. The Beijing Municipal Education

Commission selected it as "Premium Courseware " in 2019.

Wen Ziyang was born in Chengdu in 1998 and is currently a graduate student in the Composition Department at the Central Conservatory of Music since the sixth grade of elementary school，he began to study Harmony lessons and composition lessons with Professor Huang Huwei in the Sichuan Conservatory of Music.And then he has been studying with Professor Chen Yonggang, Professor Jia Guoping, and Professor Qin Wenchen. He was admitted to the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music in 2016 and ranking first in the the entrance examination. And with the highest score，he was recommended for graduate studies exempting exams in 2021. In addition, he has studied piano under Professor Li Xiumei for 12 years.

Wen Ziyang is a young composer who has received attention in recent years and has been described by Music Weekly as a "harvester of domestic and international awards." His music is based on Asian culture and achieves personalized expression in a global context. He has published two works and 14 pieces of music since the age of fourteen，which were selected in 40 music competitions and solicitations at home and abroad, including China National Arts Fund, the "Era Symphony" Works Exhibition and Evaluation (collaboration) of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the first prize of the Suzhou Jinji Lake International Composition Competition, the first prize of the German Weimar International Music Competitions , the first prize in both the orchestral and chamber opera groups of the "ArtinnoAward" International Composition Competition, the first prize of the Con Tempo International Composition Competition, the first prize of the Lin Yao Ji International Competition for Solo Violin Composition in Chinese Style, and the first prize of Chinese—ASEAN Music Festival International Composition Competition, and has repeatedly become the youngest winner. In addition, his poetry and articles have been published in People's Music and other publications. He has successfully collaborated with over 20 professional orchestras for world premieres and his works have been performed in 13 countries, including the United States, Russia, Germany, Austria, and Japan, and in dozens of cities across China. The venue of the performance includes the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center in New York, and China National Grand Theatre and other well-known music halls.