XUE Miao
XUE Miao is the youngest and most representative Zhongruan player in the contemporary era and the champion of the professional plucked fiddle group of CCTV in 2019.
In 2014, she won the gold medal of the junior professional group in Taipei Cross-Strait National Instrumental Music Competition and the special award of the junior group in the 4^th Hong Kong International China Instrumental Music Competition. In 2015, she won first prize of the junior professional group of the International Plucked Fiddle Competition Between Chinese and Foreign Nationalities in South Korea, the gold medal of the junior professional group of the International Chinese Music Competition in Singapore, and first prize of the junior professional group of the National Ruan Invitational Competition of the Chinese National Orchestra in Beijing. In 2016, she won first prize in the instrumental music competition on campus of the scholarship system of Central Conservatory of Music, first prize in the solo competition of “Yiyang Top-Notch Music Talent Growth Plan” and the gold award of Hong Kong Art Festival. She was also selected into the 2016 Talent Cultivation Plan “Little Angel of Music". In 2017, she won the special gold award of the Singapore International Chinese Music Competition. Since the age of 14, she has held eight recitals and published five CD and DVD albums.
 

XU Yang
XU Yang, a famous Zhongruan player and educator, currently serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Central Conservatory of Music. XU works as the vice chairwoman in Ruan Professional Committee of China Nationalities Orchestra Society, a member of the experts committee for National Occupational Skill Tests and Evaluations, a council member of China National Instrumental Music Society, a member of the experts committee for China National Instrumental Performance Grading, the artistic director of Ruan Chamber Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music, and the founder and director of the Ruan’s instrument brand “XU Yang” of Lehai Instrument Co., Ltd. She is also the head of XU Yang Zhongruan International Culture Research Institute.
XU Yang is the first Zhongruan professional full-time teacher of the Central Conservatory of music. In 1997, her first solo concert was held in Beijing Concert Hall. She has been the judge of The Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, Wenhua Award of the Cultural Ministry, the National Occupational Skill Competition of the Ministry of Education and the CCTV Grand Prix.
 

QIAN Weixiang
QIAN Weixiang is a contemporary young pianist, a master of piano performance from Central Conservatory of Music, and a young teacher of the middle school affiliated to Xinghai Conservatory of Music. He studied piano with Professor LI Qifang, a famous piano educator and performer. In recent years, he has appeared in the major venues all over the country. As a soloist, he has scored many attainments in national instrumental music and has successfully cooperated with DAI Ya, LI Meng, ZHOU Wang, SU Chang, CHENG Haoru and other musicians, as well as recording albums and actively promoting the development of Chinese national instrumental music. He has been invited to participate in The Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, Wenhua Award and CCTV Instrumental Music Competition and other important domestic competitions for many times where serving as a piano collaborator. He has also been invited to cooperate with well-known domestic orchestras.
 

LI Shang
LI Shang is a Chinese young percussionist, the core member of GongLuo New Art Ensemble and Caozi Music Club and the head of Jingu Club. He studied under the tutelage of the famous percussionist ZHU Xiaolin, Prof. ZHU Jianping, Prof. JIAO Shanlin and Prof. WANG Yidong. As a typical modern percussionist in the new era, he has been always holding extensive and influential deep cooperation with art groups and artists.
In recent years, he has participated in the Spring Festival Gala hosted by CCTV and other programs’ production by Hunan Satellite TV, Jiangsu Satellite TV, Guangzhou Satellite TV, Beijing Satellite TV, and CCTV. He has also participated in the motion design for percussion music in the film “Legend of The Naga Pearls” and the shows such as“Singer 2019”, “Guo Yue Da Dian”, “Feng Hua Guo Yue”, “China's Top Band”. The singers he has worked together with including GONG Linna, Jackie Chan, LI Yifeng, Avlil Lavigne and so forth. He has visited many countries for performance exchanges including the United States, France, Spain, Malaysia and Singapore.
These years he has been constantly exploring, trying, and seeking breakthroughs to do some things that he thought are more meaningful. For example, he got the invitation from the famous musician Robert Zollitsch to participate in the 40^th anniversary of the unearthing of Chime-bells from the Tomb of Marquis Yi of the Zeng State and the tour of Linna Gong 24 Solar Terms Concert, joined the tour of “Listening to China” series led by the famous composer MA Jiuyue and the premiere of “Super-Vocal” in Beijing.
 
Program
NING Yong: The Ancient Charm of Zhongnan
SU Wenqing: In the Bloom of Youth
LIN Jiliang: Under the Grapevines
Beethoven: Variation in D Major (arranged by XUE Miao)
GAN Lin: Jingwei Fills Up the Sea, the First Movement “The Sea of Heart”
LIU Xing: Zhongruan Concerto No.2, the Third Movement
LI Yuejin: Feel at Ease
LIU Xing: Yunnan Memories, the Third Movement
 
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