Director, US-China Music Institute
Artistic Director, China Now Music Festival

Conductor Jindong Cai is the founding director of the US-China Music Institute and the founder of the China Now Music Festival. Cai came to Bard after spending many years at Stanford University. He has conducted orchestras throughout the US and abroad, especially in his native China. Cai is also a scholar with deep interest in the history and evolution of classical music in China. He will conduct all five concerts of the 2022 China Now Music Festival, in programs that present works of contemporary Chinese music never before heard in the US as well as classic works rarely performed that illustrate deep crosscurrents between Western and Chinese music and culture.