Central Conservatory of Music
The Central Conservatory of Music
Bo Dai
*18 May 1988
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...?
Chen Yao
*14 November 1976
Yao Chen’s music, always ritual in nature, eschews contemporary vogues and instead aims at a timelessness and an otherness that exists beyond the standard categories – music for the moment, but also music for then and music for what lies ahead. Whether his work is brittle or forceful, or often both in coexistence, melancholy and a sense of wonder are recurring characteristics, as is an internationalist orientation grounded in a quest for maximal musical meaning. His perceptions on musical time, timbre, intonation, pulsation, and expression are always at frontiers: between the old and the new, between the East and the West, between irrational mysticism and rational logic. These perceptions have imbued in his many works such as From the Vessel of Ancient Souls, Garden: Unearthing the Way Home, Pipa Plays Opera, The Supplicant, Emanations of Tara, Yearning, and so forth.
In recent years, his music has received a significant amount of recognition from many leading musicians and in many distinguished international arenas. His music has been presented by many renowned music festivals throughout the world including the Radio France (Festival Présences, Alla Breve), Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, ISCM’s World Music Days (Slovenia), Centre Acanthes Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series, Focus Festival at Juilliard School in NYC, Pacific Music Festival in Japan.
His music has been performed by distinguished ensembles such as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lorraine in France, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, China NCPA Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, Pacifica String Quartet (Grammy Winner), Quatuor Diotima, Eighth Blackbird Sextet, Tang Quartet, Civitas Ensemble among many others.
He has received commissions and awards from many international organizations including Radio France, Harvard University Fromm Foundation, Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Mellon Foundation, China National Center for Performing Arts, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. His music has been recorded by labels such as Cedille, Navona, Blue Griffin.
He is professor of Composition at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In the past, he has hold lectureships at the University of Chicago Music Department; professorships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music, the Illinois State University School of Music, and the Soochow University School of Music in China. YAO is his surname, and Chen is his first name.
Jianping Tang
*16 May 1955
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."
Liqiang Dong
*12 May 1963
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.
Ping Chang
*26 June 1972
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
*26 July 1987
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.
Weiya Hao
*28 August 1971
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’
Wenjing Guo
*1 February 1956
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)
Xiaobing Li
*16 November 1967
Li Xiaobing
Li Xiaobing is a composer. He is also a professor ,doctoral supervisor and director of the Department of Music Artificial Intelligence at the Central Conservatory of Music, leading talent of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program" in Philosophy and Social Sciences, a renowned cultural figure and recipient of the "Four Batches" Talents, director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), director of the Computer Art Branch of the China Computer Federation (CCF), and chief expert of a major national social science project. He is a pioneer and advocate of "3D music" research, an expert in electronic music, computer music, and music technology. His musical compositions cover nearly all genres, and some of his works have gained wide popularity and influence among the masses. He has received numerous domestic and international awards, including the China Golden Bell Award, Wenhua Award, Wenhua Music Composition Award, National Opera and Dance Drama First Prize, and the "Five-One Project" Award from the general office of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee
In 2008, he held the large-scale live performance concert "China" on the Great Wall,which was organized by eight ministriesthe includng China Federation of Literary and Art Circles . In 2019, he conducted the outdoor "Future Concert" 3D music suite "Chinese Zodiac" at Luyi Cathedral in Yan'an. He has guided his students to win numerous awards in domestic and international professional competitions, including more than ten national championships and two world grand prizes.
Xiaogang Ye
*23 September 1955
Xiaogang Ye
Xiaogang Ye is a music educator, professor of composition, and doctoral tutor at the Central Conservatory of Music. And Ye is the founding dean of School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen since May 2021. He has been a member of the Committee of the 10th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th, 12th and 13th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is currently vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of the China Musicians Association, an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, international chair in composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, distinguished professor of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, honorary professor of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, and a consultant to the Tianjin Juilliard School. Ye is the founder and artistic director of the Beijing Modern Music Festival, Shenzhen Belt & Road International Music Festival, Tsingtao International Music Festival, Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Greater Bay Area Music Season, and International Music Competition Harbin. He is one of the members of Talents Project selected by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, and an expert who enjoys a special allowance of the State Council. Ye is a representative figure of contemporary Chinese music and one of the most well-known composers in the country.
Ye has composed a large number of works in a variety of genres, including symphonic music, chamber music, dance drama and opera, as well as film and TV music. Ye' s important symphonic works include Horizon, The Last Paradise, Song of the Earth, Twilight of the Himalayas, Scent of Green Mango, Mount E’mei, Lu Xun (Symphony No.5), The Heroes (Symphony No.7), The Backyard of the Village, Springs in the Forest,
Yangzhuoyong Cuo, Macau Bride Suites and Yong Le. The Jade Goddess of Mercy and The Rise of the Great Nations, two of his film scores, were very well received. Ye's piano concerto Starry Sky, written for Lang Lang, was viewed by an audience of around three billion people worldwide when it was performed as part of the opening ceremony concert of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Since 1995, the world-renowned publisher Schott has published and served as an agent for Ye’s works.
Ye’s works have been widely performed by orchestras in China and abroad, including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, Munchner Philharmoniker, Philhamoniker Hamburg, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala, Russian National Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Japanese Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. His works have been presented in the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Macau Arts Festival, Beijing Music Festival, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, Shanghai New Music Week, Musikfestspiele Saar, Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, and George Enescu International Festival.
Beginning in 2013, the "China Story" concert series featuring Ye's music has been presented in venues all over the world, including Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center (New York), and concert halls in Berlin, Saarbrücken, Münich, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Moscow, Kolkata, San Jose (Costa Rica), Lima (Peru), Nates (France), Dublin, and Bydgoszcz (Poland). The events have constituted a significant contribution to the propagation of Chinese contemporary music on the international stage, receiving wide acclaim.
Ye has been the recipient of many prestigious honors in China and abroad, including a Five Distinguished Project Award by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, a Wenhua Music Award by the China Ministry of Culture, a first prize of the Golden Bell Award by the China Musicians Association, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, and a 2013 China Arts Award, among others. Ye has composed music for more than 30 important Chinese movies and TV series, and won "The Best Score Award" five times for his efforts in this area.
As a member of the 13th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Ye has been enthusiastic in the promotion of music and of national arts education. He has made strong appeals to increase government funding for the arts and has proposed motions concerning cross-cultural exchanges and the protection of musical copyright. At many national meetings, Ye has called relentlessly for increasing public attention to the protection of intellectual property, and for the promotion of cultural exchanges with the rest of the world. There has been dramatic progress in both of these areas as a result of his vigorous efforts.
Xiaoting Gong
*16 September 1970
Gong Xiaoting
Composer Dr. Gong Xiaoting is a professor and postdoctoral co-supervisor at the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music in China. She is also a visiting scholar at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris , France, a scholar of the " Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University” of Ministry of Education in China and the Vice President of the Chinese Polyphonic Music Society. She serves as an evaluation expert for China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center and a guest professor at several universities. From 2000 to 2010, she was the director of the Polyphonic Research Office of the Composition Department.
Gong Xiaoting is an accomplished composer who has won awards in various fields including composition, teaching, and research. Her works have won both domestic and international awards such as " the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music" and have been selected in the national-level collection "Centennial Collection of Chinese Music Works" ,the People's Music Publishing House's Golden Record "Original Essence of New Era Chinese Symphony Works" and “New Era Symphony-National Collection of Symphony Works” and so on.
During the Sino-French Cultural Year, she successfully held a piano concert featuring her own works in Paris. The China National Symphony Orchestra has twice held personal symphonic music concerts for her, which were widely praised. She is also the first female composer to hold a personal music concert at National Centre for the Performing Arts. She has collaborated with other orchestras such as the China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Shaanxi Symphony Orchestra, and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gong Xiaoting has published four personal CD albums, two collections of piano works, two monographs, a French translation, and dozens of academic papers. She has completed nine national and provincial-level scientific research projects and won the "Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions in Beijing". The course " Polyphony " she taught has been rated as a "High-quality Undergraduate Key Course of Beijing Universities," and the textbook "Fundamentals of Polyphony Music" she wrote was awarded "High-quality Undergraduate Key Textbook of Beijing Universities." She has won the "Outstanding Teacher Award" from the Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation, China and received the title of "Outstanding Teacher of the Central Conservatory of Music."
Xinruo Chen
*24 January 1978
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.
Ziyang Wen
*18 May 1998
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.