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Bridges East and West Music Festival Finale Concert Program 1


Bridges East and West Music Festival Finale Concert Friday, May 8, 2015

ABOUT THE MUSIC

Rainbow Bridge Variation – Pin Hsin LIN (b. 1974)

Rainbow Bridge Variation is inspired from the Taiwan’s Seediq folk song “Rainbow Bridge,” which I heard from the movie “Seediq Bale.” This movie describes the Japanese occupation of Taiwan began in 1895, until 1930 Mona Lu Tao, who was one of the Seediq leaders and succeeded his fater as a chief of the village of Mahebo, summoned his people to fight against Japanese troop conflicts caused Wushe City. Finally Mona Lu Tao and his tribe calmly sacrificed. Furthermore, Seedia people believes that, in the afterlife, who follow the “Gaga” (the teaching of ancestral spirits) would walk across the rainbow bridge and reunion with their ancestors, the final perpetual existance.

In the introduction and exposition, I also apply the rhythmic pattern of Hakka folk drumming rhythm to establish the tribe’s passionate feeling before they set off to fight with Japanese troop. Later I create some arch gesture on right hand to express the Seediq tribe’s crossing the Rainbow Bridge. Followed by the slow and tranquil middle section, I apply the Seediq folk song, “Rainbow Bridge,” with polyphonic effect to depict the Seediq folk duet and chorus while celebrating their big event. Later in the recapitulation, I combine both Hakka folk drumming rhythm and Seediq folk song with a powerful repetitive ending. Tibetan Tunes – CHEN Yi (b. 1953) I. Du Mu

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University, the two-‐movement Tibetan Tunes was written for the New Pacific Trio and was premiered at the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific in January 2007 in Stockton, California. The first movement is inspired by the Tibetan folk tune "Du Mu". Chen explains, "The music presents the rich gestures of Du Mu (a name of a god in Tibetan Buddhism) in a serene mood." A unique and notable addition to this prolific composer's catalog of works. (From http://www.sheetmusicplus.com)

Melody Abandoned – GAO Ping (b. 1970) II. Lakeside Poet VII. Listening to the Qin 湖畔诗人 Lakeside Poet – 木心 Mu Xin (trans. Gao Ping) 烛光 A Candle light 湖水 A lake 草尖上的天 Sky at the tips of grass 马嘶 Horse whinnying 野烧的烟味 The scent of smoke from burning in the wilderness 这是我呀 Oh this is me 都被分散了的 Disintegrating and spreading all over 一焰我 A flame of me 一粼我 A ripple of me 一片我 An expanse of me 一阵我 An expanse of me 一缕我 A string of me 散得不成我 Disintegrated into nothing like me 无法安葬了 Impossible to be buried 听琴 Listening to the Qin – 宗白华 Zong Baihua (trans. Luo Hui) 我低了头 I lower my head 听着琴海的.音波 Listening to the qin, the waves of music .无限的世界 Boundless world .无限的.人.生 Boundless life 从我.心头流过 Flowing across my heart 我只是悠然听着 I idly listen, listen 忽然.一曲清歌 Suddenly a pure song 惊堕我.手中的花 Startles the flower in my hand 我的.心杳然去了 My heart gone, without a trace 泪下如雨 Tears pour down like rain


Night Alley – GAO Ping (b. 1970)

Night Alley was commissioned as an obligatory piece for the Fourth China International Piano Competition in 2007. I heard twelve semi-‐finalists playing this work during the competition. The piece attempts to capture an unpredictable and poetic realm of hearing familiar music in unexpected time and place.

In an essay called The Class and Piano by the artist Chen Dan-‐Qing, the author writes, “In Beijing, Shanghai, and Nan Jing, I had several overheard encounters with the piano music of Bach and Chopin in the deep darkness of the commune corridors…strangely, listening to the renowned masters in the Lincoln Center or the Carnegie Hall is not as deliciously moving and enchanting as secretly enjoying music in the austere and unfamiliar domestic surroundings of a commune corridor, even if it is only from the first attempts of a young child.” I am also so very fond of this kind of surprise and magic moment, which arises only from chance. One can never demand for such experience, one can only wait. I have dedicated it to Madame Zhou Guang-‐Ren. White Clouds, Sash-‐Like, Wrap Mountain Waists – David S. LEFKOWITZ (b. 1964)

In the painting “Poet on the Mountaintop” by the 15th-‐Century (Ming Dynasty) painter, poet, and scholar Shen Zhou, we see a poet atop a mountain promontory, overlooking a steep valley. Contrasting with the craggy rocks and malformed trees, we see a blanket of clouds, moving down from high mountains behind the poet into the valley below him. Thus the poem describes:

White clouds sash-‐like wrap mountain waists,

The rock terrace flies in space, distant, a narrow path.

Leaning on a bramble staff, far and free I gaze,

To the warble of valley brook I will reply, whistling.

I imagine this scene as the culmination of a day-‐long hike that Shen Zhou himself might have enjoyed, starting in the morning and ending after dusk. In the morning, he hears a folk song from down in the valley, echoed by the mountains and by other singers. Climbing higher, the folk song fades, as he becomes aware of the dramatic and misshapen landscape, and the cascading of mountain brooks. Reaching the promontory, he sees the creeping clouds pouring down, enveloping the rocks and trees in a cloak of white. Finally, as the light fades, he descends, the folk song heard earlier that day a quietly-‐whistled recollection.

In this composition, commissioned by Baroque Camerata of the National Sun Yat-‐Sen University, I make use of a folk song from the Zhuang minority (of Guang-‐Xi and Guang-‐Dong), that begins with the words “Zhongshan is a beautiful place.” While there is no direct connection between NSYSU and this folk song or the Zhuang minority, the “Zhongshan” sung about is the county of Sun Yat-‐Sen’s birth, which was renamed in honor of Sun Yat-‐Sen (known as “Zhongshan”) after his death. This music is written in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of Zhongshan Daxue in Kaohsiung, and was premiered at the Taipei National Concert Hall on 20 November, 2010. Moonlit Night on The Spring River – arr. ZHOU Xueshi (b. 1962)

A piece of traditional Chinese instrumental folk music. With its plain and elegant melody as well as slow and steady rhythm, the music


manifests itself like a beautiful Chinese landscape painting, a charming scenery of a small boat floating on a undulating river under the newly risen moon complementing with the swaying shadows of flowers on a quiet spring night. Like the Jade ………………………………………………………….…...…….. YANG Qing (b. 1953) Through the intricate melodic lines, constant changing tone color and simple concise rhythm, the spirit of “Like the Jade” can be revealed.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-‐born pianist Inna FALIKS has established herself as one of the most exciting, committed, communicative and poetic artists of her generation. Faliks recently relocated from NYC to Los Angeles, after being named the new Head of Piano and Associate Professor of Piano at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. After her acclaimed debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she has performed on many of the world’s great stages, with numerous orchestras, in solo appearances, and with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin and Keith Lockhart. Ms. Faliks’s distinguished career has taken her to thousands of recitals and concerti in prestigious venues in the US as well as highly reviewed appearances in France, Italy, Switzerland, Ukraine, Estonia, Japan, Russia, and Israel. Winner of many competitions, including the ProMusicis International Award, she has been featured on radio and international television broadcasts, and has performed in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris’ Salle Cortot, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, LA’s Zipper Hall, and in festivals such as Newport Festival, Bargemuisc Festival, Peninsula Festival, Verbier Festival, and more.

GAO Ping is a composer-‐pianist, born in Sichuan province, known for evocative textures and piano vocalization, and is the recipient of high musical honors. As a pianist, Gao Ping premiered his Piano Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mr. Kenneth Young in 2008. In Europe, his music has been commissioned

or performed by groups including the Berlin Piano-‐Percussion Ensemble the Zurich-‐based Ensemble Pyramide, and the Gaudeamus International Music Week in Amsterdam. In 2012，Gao Ping premiered “The Four Not-‐alike” for piano and Chinese ensemble at the Glinka Small Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonie for an enthusiastic audience. In Asia, his work was performed at the Beijing-‐Modern International Music Festival, Hibiki Hall Music Festival in Japan, Macau International Music Festival. He was also commissioned and premiered by the Israel Contemporary Players in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. In North America, his music was premiered at the Aspen Music Festival, and commissioned by pianist Ursula Oppens and violinist Arnold Steinhardt, respectively. The San Francisco Chronicle called his work “The Mountain” a “superb and often sweepingly beautiful work.” Gao Ping’s chamber music on Naxos label (2006; 2013) was critically acclaimed. Since 2012, Dr. Gao is a professor in composition at the Conservatory of Music-‐-‐Capital Normal University as well as a guest-‐professor at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He previously taught at the Canterbury University in Christchurch New Zealand.

With an almost-‐40-‐year operatic career, Juliana GONDEK has sung on the world’s most celebrated stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Disney Hall, the Salzburg Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, and Milan’s La Scala. She has performed with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, and Carlos Kleiber, sung with over 120 major opera companies and orchestras and in recital in the worlds great concert halls, and many of her two dozen recordings have won international prizes (Gramophone’s Record of the Year for “Ariodante” and the Polish “Grammy” for “The Complete Songs of Karol Szymanowski”.) A specialist in Baroque, Mozart, Bel Canto, Verdi, Strauss, Spanish, Polish, and contemporary repertoire, Ms. Gondek has taught as Professor of Voice and Opera at the UCLA since 1997. She is Founder-‐Director of the NAPA Music Festival (Napa, CA) and has directed the Pacific Music Festival’s Baroque Vocal Academy in Sapporo, Japan, Astoria (Oregon) Music Festival’s Young Artist Program, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, and SongFest. In great demand for master classes and as an adjudicator for national and international singing competitions, Ms. Gondek’s students perform on Broadway and with top opera companies and orchestras worldwide, and include several Los Angeles Opera Domingo-‐Thornton Young Artists.


HU Yulin, bamboo flute player, lecturer in College of Music at Capital Normal University. He also composes music for flute, including: “Rain”, “Sigh”, “Bamboo”, “Bamboo chirping in Tong Ling”, “Love of Life”. He won the first prize of the youth group B in the Ministry of Culture Award National Flute contest in 2008, and won the highest prize of Jiangnan Sizhu (string and pipe ensemble) group in 2012; participated in the National Farmers Gala performance (playing “Yangbiancuima” -‐ Busy Transporting with Grain) in 2012; and also participated in the CCTV (China Central Television) Farmers’ Spring Festival Gala Concert (“Tong Ling Zhu Yin” -‐ Bamboo chirping in Tong Ling) in 2014. He has held lectures on the art of bamboo flute playing in Tsinghua University, Peking University and some other colleges or universities. He held solo concerts in Beijing Concert Hall in 2012; and in Estonia in 2013. He has invented new techniques in playing: finger hole playing method, chord playing method, two rapid tonguing playing fast staccato method, etc. Composer, music theorist, and professor David S. LEFKOWITZ holds degrees in music composition from Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, and The Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester. He has won international acclaim, having works performed in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, the Ukraine, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Israel, and Egypt. He has won national and international competitions, including the Fukui Harp Music Awards Competition (twice), and the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers (ASCAP) Grants to Young Composers Competition. In addition, he has won prizes and recognition from the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA), the Guild of Temple Musicians, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Washington International Competition, Society for New Music's Brian M. Israel Prize, the ALEA III International Competition, and the Gaudeamus Music Week. He has also been a Meet-‐The-‐Composer Composer in Residence. Recent commissions include works for Irina Donskaia of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and Grace Cloutier of the Hartford Conservatory, for whom his Love Fragments for mezzo-‐soprano, viola, and harp, to be premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall on June 22, was written. His new CD, Harp's Desire, containing about 80 minutes of his music for harp, was recently released on Albany Records.

Pin Hsin LIN’s (林品妡) music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Reading, Peabody Symphony Orchestra New Music Reading, Bridges East and West Music Festival of University of California Los Angeles, “Music Of Taiwan 2013” of the Taiwanese American Sinfonia Organization, SUONO MOBILE USA, University of Illinois Percussion Ensemble, Turks Head Knot featuring horn soloist Adam Unsworth, Sound Exchange Musical Festival of National Taiwan Normal University, and the Horn professor, Brian Kilp, of Indiana State University. Her music has been performed at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, St. Magnus Festival, Bard Festival, and Centrum Chamber Music Festival, and Roosevelt University. She also gave lectures regarding the composition analysis at the Aspen Composers’ Conference, Murray State University Athena Festival, University of Central Missouri New Music Festival. Those events are widely presented in Los Angeles, Scotland, Tucson, Chicago, Baltimore, New York, Washington State, Brunswick, Ann Arbor, West Chester (PA), Virginia, and Champaign-‐Urbana. She is also the recipient of the Peabody Career Development Grants, New Music USA Composer Assistance Grants, as well as scholarships from Centrum, Bard, Bowdoin and St. Magnus festivals, Henry Mancini Fellowship, Powell Bucknell Scholarship, Herbet H. Wise Scholarship, and Honorable Mention by Minnesota Orchestra. She is currently PhD candidate in composition at UCLA.

Tammy (Yu-‐Tung) LIN is currently a fourth-‐year undergraduate piano student studying with Walter Ponce. Born in Taiwan, she gave her first solo recital at age 6 in Guanran Catholic Music Elementary School and started accompanying instrumentalists at age 7. As a child in Taiwan, she received Silver Medal in Kawaii Children’s Piano Competition, First Prize in Taipei City Children’s Piano Competition, and Honorable Mention in Taiwan National Children Piano Competition. She also participated in solo and orchestral concert tours around Taiwan, China, and Guam. At age 14, she moved to Northern California and studied in San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division. Since then, she received Grand Prize in Pyrenees Music Society, Third Prize in Benno Rubinyi Piano Competition, Second Prize in Eastern Music Festival Solo Piano Competition, and was invited to perform in Kennedy Center of Performing Art in Washington DC in the summer of 2014. As a Winner of the All-‐Star Concerto Competition, she received opportunity to perform Chopin Concerto No 1 with UCLA Philharmonia


in January 2015. Tammy is also an oboist. She was the principal oboe in elementary and high school band/ orchestra, winning the First Prize in Taipei City Oboe Competition-‐ Junior Division, Honorable Mention in Taiwan National Youth Oboe Competition, and Gold Metal in California Music Education Association -‐ State Section.

Antonio LYSY, an artist of international stature and dedicated

pedagogue, has performed as a soloist in major concert halls worldwide. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Yuri Temirkanov, Charles Dutoit, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Vegh, and Kees Bakels, and continues to perform regularly both as a solo, and chamber music artist. Lysy has recorded extensively for CBC Radio, BBC Radio, Classic FM, and other European radio networks. His love and commitment to chamber music is demonstrated by his musical directorship and founding in 1989, of the annual Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy (www.itslafoce.org). Lysy enjoys exploring the versatility of the cello’s voice, from Baroque to electric, and is committed to projects which enrich his diverse interests in music. The currently touring show, “Te Amo, Argentina”, a personal journey through the heart and soul of Argentina’s fascinating culture, featuring solo cello and chamber works, dance, film, and spoken word, has met with widespread acclaim. In the summer of 2003 Lysy accepted the position of Professor of Cello at University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to moving to the United States, he held a professorship at McGill University in Montréal.

In North America, Neal STULBERG has led the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, National, New Jersey, New World, Pacific, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Utah and Vancouver symphonies, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, among others. He is a recipient of the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, America's most coveted conducting prize, and has served as assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Carlo Maria Giulini and music director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. A frequent guest conductor in Europe, Asia, Israel and Russia, Neal Stulberg is also an acclaimed pianist, appearing regularly as recitalist, chamber musician and with major orchestras and at international festivals as pianist/conductor. In 2001, he conducted Philip Glass' opera Akhnaten at the Rotterdam Festival and Thomas Adès' Powder Her Face with Long

Beach Opera in Los Angeles. He has recorded for West German Radio, Donemus, Yarlung Records, Sono Luminus and the Composers Voice label. Mr. Stulberg is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School. From 2004 to 2014, he served as Director of Chamber Music at the Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute of the Crossroads School in Santa Monica. He is currently Chair of the Department of Music and Professor and Director of Orchestral Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Sean Patrick O’HARA, a California native, began his studies in 2009. He has been an Undergraduate at UCLA since 2011 studying with Chris Hanulik, Principal Bass of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2013, Sean was named Principal Bass of the UCLA Philharmonia under Director Neal Stulberg. He has won positions with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (2010), Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra (2013), American Youth Symphony (2014). In 2014, he attended the Schleswig-‐Holstein Musik Festival Orchestral Academy in Rendsburg, Germany, where he appeared as Principal. He was also named a winner of the UCLA All-‐Star Competition performing Bottesini's Grand Duo fro Violin and Double Bass with the UCLA Philharmonia. In addition to his classical pursuits, Sean also plays with We the Folk, who was awarded "Best Band" at UCLA's Spring Sing 2014.

Multi-‐award winning violinist Guillaume Sutre studied in Douai, France and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at age 14. He attended Indiana University at Bloomington and subsequently studied in Cologne with the Amadeus Quartet. In 1986, he founded the Trio Wanderer; ten years later he joined the Ysaye Quartet. Sutre’s vast repertoire includes the completes string chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Fauré and Ravel, and he regularly performs world premieres of works by contemporary composers. His collaborators have included his wife Kyunghee Kim-‐Sutre, Yo-‐Yo Ma, Jean-‐Claude Pennetier, Pascal Rogé, Leonidas Kavakos, Antonio Lysy, Movses Pogossian and he has appeared as soloist with numerous European orchestras. His recordings for Sony Classical, Decca, Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, Aeon, and Ysaÿe Records are internationally acclaimed. Among other illustrious educator positions, Sutre is currently Professor of Violin and director of string chamber music at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles. Guillaume Sutre was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and the Letters by the French government.


Brita TASTAD is a versatile and expressive Canadian violinist

currently a M.M. candidate in Violin Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, studying with Guillaume Sutre. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy in 2008, Brita attended McGill University’s Schulich School of Music in Montreal where she studied with Jonathan Crow and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Violin Performance. Born in Edmonton, AB and raised in Saskatoon, SK, Brita began playing the violin at the age of four. She has played in the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, McGill Symphony Orchestra, The Lark Musical Society, Pacific Opera Project, and the UCLA Philarmonia. And while she performs regularly with her UCLA-‐based quartet, she remains an active chamber musician. As such, she has participated in chamber music outreach concerts throughout the Los Angeles area as part of the UCLA Gluck Foundation outreach program as well. Aside from classical music, Brita has a strong passion for folk music. She plays the Hardanger—an eight-‐string violin from Norway passed down from her grandmother. The rustic and ethereal sound of the instrument and Brita’s Norwegian roots are what drew her to this unique instrument. She is recognized for her ability to improvise and her lyrical playing in classical, rock, folk, and commercial settings.

UCLA PHILHARMONIA is the flagship orchestra of the UCLA Herb Al-‐pert School of Music, and one of Southern California’s premiere training orchestras. Its music directors have included Lukas Foss, Richard Du-‐fallo, Mehli Mehta, Samuel Krachmalnick, Alexander Treger and Jon Robertson. Since 2005, Philharmonia has been led by Neal Stulberg, who has greatly expanded the scope of the ensemble’s activities. 2014-‐15 highlights include the Verdi Requiem, Dutilleux Symphony No. 2 (“Le Double”), the world premiere of Ian Krouse’s Armenian Requiem, Philharmonia’s tenth annual “All Star” concert, and a “Sundays Live” Bing Theater appearance. UCLA Philharmonia's CDs are available on iTunes, amazon.com, Naxos Music Library and other retail outlets.

The VEM Quartet, the graduate string quartet-‐in-‐residence at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is the cornerstone of the newly created Armenian Music Program at UCLA which, thanks to generous donor support and the assistance of the Lark Music Society. Members of

the Quartet strive to cultivate an appreciation and passion for Armenian music throughout the community through musical performances, music education, outreach services, and a series of collaborations with composers to create new works dedicated to and enriching Armenian cultural heritage.

Violinist Nicole Sauder is a student of Guillaume Sutre and Movses Pogossian and a second year graduate student at UCLA. She recently completed a Bachelor's degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Paul Kantor and Ivan Zenaty and participated in the school's Advanced Piano Trio Program under Sharon Robinson. Nicole has been on faculty with the Interlochen School for the Arts, and spent this past summer studying and performing with the VEM Quartet at the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival in Italy.

Violinist Nicolette Kocsardy started playing the violin at the age of three. She is the prize winner of many competitions including the Grand Prize at the Lewisville Lake Symphony and Northeast Symphony Competitions, Juanita Miller Competition, and a finalist in the Lynn Harrell Young Artists Competition. She has performed with several orchestras including the Lewisville Lake Symphony, Northeast Symphony, and the Kent State Orchestra. Nicolette has given recitals in Dallas, New York City, Hungary, Japan, Italy and Canada. She has received her Bachelors of Music Degree in Violin Performance at Kent State University. Nicolette teaches students from beginner to advanced levels in the Los Angeles area and is also continuing her musical journey at UCLA with full scholarship as a graduate student.

Violist Stephanie Nagler grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and began playing the violin at age five. Over the years she has studied with Pat Greathouse, David Brewer, and Richard Rood. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in Contemporary Music from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Recently, Stephanie has played with the U.S. Department of State, Office of Foreign Missions, Active Child, Coro de Camara, and the National Dance Institute of New Mexico. She also played violin and created original composition for the Emmy award winning documentary, Canes of Power. Currently, Stephanie is pursuing the Masters of Music program at UCLA and is studying violin with Professor Movses Pogossian and viola with Professor Richard O'Neill.

Cellist Luke Kim won numerous competitions and performed as a soloist with orchestras, such as the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Youth Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He


also performed as a guest soloist with the Polish Czestochowa Philharmonic Orchestra, Vancouver Pilgrim Orchestra, West Coast Symphony and Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra. Luke performed as a principal cellist in orchestras such as the Vancouver Youth Symphony, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra. He also performed with other orchestras such as the Asian Youth Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony. In the past summers, he attended the Aspen Music Festival, and the Early Music Vancouver Programme in which he studied baroque cello under Jaap ter Linden and Tulio Rondon. He participated in masterclasses with renowned cellists such as Lynn Harrell, Aldo Parisot, János Starker, and Raphael Wallfisch. As a graduate of the University of British Columbia (UBC), Luke received the Catherine-‐Cooke Topping Memorial Medal (2011) for musical excellence. A former student of Joseph Elworthy, Kenneth Friedman, John Friesen, Peter Spurbeck, and Eric Wilson, Luke is now a scholarship student with Antonio Lysy at the University of California in Los Angeles.

WANG Chaohui is a Pipa musician, educator, and a music professor at Capital Normal University. She is also a Master's supervisor, a judge of the Grading Committee of the Chinese Musicians Association, a member of Chinese Musicians Association, the director of Pipa Professional Committee of China Nationalities Orchestra Society. She successfully held multiple solo Pipa concerts in Beijing and Tokyo, and performed at numerous music festivals, including “Norwegian Music Festival”, “Japanese Culture and Art Festival”, “British and American Chinese Arts Festival”, “the First International Art Festival in Osaka, Japan”, “21th and 23th Daegu International Music Festival”, “The 28th Shanghai Spring International Art Festival”, “the 26th Korea International Dance Festival”, and “China Harbin Summer Arts Festival”. Chaohui has received multiple awards including 11th "Peacock Award" issued by the Ministry of Culture, 4th “Culture and Art Academic Award”, and the award from the 28th Shanghai Spring International Art Festival. As a teacher, she received more than 20 awards such as best teacher award in the First Asian HuaXia National Instrumental Competition, outstanding teacher award in the Dunhuang Cup First National Youth Pipa Competition, Music and Dance Competition in Singapore, the First Singapore International Music Competition, and the First International Liaoyuan Pipa Competition. Chaohui has been invited as a judge for CCTV Folk Instrument Competition and other significant music exams. Twenty of

her students have been granted 70 awards in domestic and foreign music competitions. Her biography was recorded in "Dictionary of Chinese Musicians".

YANG Qing is a professor and Doctoral Advisor in Capital Normal

University located in Beijing and also President of Conservatory of Music. He is also the Dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts. He serves as the Council member of China Musician Association, Vice director of Music Education Committee, Vice chairman of Beijing Musician Association, Director of National Music Committee and Production Committee, standing director of China Nationality Orchestral Music Institute and Vice director of Production Committee, member of editorial committee of the《Music Production》magazine, member of the national arts teaching committee, member of the national teaching directing committee for arts master’s degree, councilman of China Arts Education Promotion Society and member of the Ministry of Education’s Artists academic discourse group. His major musical works were initially performed in Beijing, Shanghai, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei, etc., which were widely welcomed. He once won the Sixth China Musical Works prize, China Music “Golden Clock Prize”, Art Works Collection Award for Beijing’s 40th anniversary of founding, Art Works Collection Award for Beijing’s 50th anniversary of founding, Taiwan “Xin Yuan Ren” World Chinese Musical Works Collection Award, China “Black Dragon Cup” Orchestral Composition Award, “Designated Piece” Award of the Sixth Taipei City Chinese Musical Instruments Compitition. China Musician Association’s Excellent Works Prize for the Republic’s 50th anniversary and Taiwan “2002 World Chinese National Music Original Prize”.

YU Chuan received his MM in erhu performance in Central

Conservatory of Music. He is the erhu lecturer of Music College and conductor of National Orchestra of Capital Normal University. He is also the conductor of National orchestra of Beijing University. He serves as the editor of《China erhu code》and the Deputy Secretary-‐General of China Musicians Association Erhu Association. He is also the director of the Huqin Committee under the China Nationalities Orchestral Society, director of China Society National Instrumental Music, and director of Beijing Muscial Instrument Association. He has published his monograph《The Basic Textbook Of Erhu》and solo disc《Autumn Poem》. He has


also visited Beijing, Shandong, Guangxi, Hebei, Gansu, Hunan to give lectures and hold erhu concert. He served as a conductor of The National Orchestra of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, The National Orchestra of National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Jin Fan Art Troupe and The National Orchestra of Beijing Union University. He started the National String Orchestra of Capital Normal University and held the concert of national string music in 2013. Yu has received numerous awards: the Silver in the occupational group at spring of Shanghai Jiangnan Sizhu International (2011), the excellent prize in the Cultural and artistic colleges and universities award traditional Instrumental music class (2012), and the first prize in the Beijing university art performance competitions Orchestra group and Chamber music group (2013).

ZHOU Shibin is Professor and Vice Dean of College of Music at

Capital Normal University, Chairman of Committee of Teaching and Studying Guidance in College of Music, President of the Society for Music Psychology of China, Deputy Director of Academic Committee of Musical Education Branch of Chinese Society of Education, Vice President of Association of Chinese Musical Therapy, Vice President of Promotion Association of Xun of Folk Culture at Chinese Ministry of Culture, researcher of Central Conservatory of Music and Vice-‐President of the Asian-‐Pacific Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music. Zhou’s main research fields are music education, music psychology, music therapy, ethnomusicology. He wrote and edited many text books and books in music education, music psychology. He held national research “curriculum reform project of national basic education”, national social science research “theory, practice and development of music education in schools”, national project “comparison research of music education between China and abroad”. In 2005, Zhou played the Chinese traditional instrument Xun with the famous conductor Yang Hongnian in Beijing Concert Hall and the concert hall in the national library. In 2008 he played Xun with Pipa and piano concert in Buffalo College and Syracuse University. In 2013 he played Xun with a group of western and Chinese instruments concert in Kean University and University of Minnesota.

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