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A world-famous pipa virtuoso, Professor Zhang Qiang is director of the String Instrument Division of the Chinese Music Department at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (CCOM).

Since graduating from CCOM in 1987, Professor Zhang has devoted himself to teaching at the conservatory as a pipa instructor for almost three decades. He has been a judge at major domestic and international instrumental music competitions and has been invited to give lectures at many educational institutions. In addition to his traditional approach in systematic technique training, Professor Zhang focuses on the cultivation of students' music awareness and strongly urges his students to explore and display personal character in performing. Many of his students stand out as national winners of China’s highest-level competitions.

Professor Zhang is an active performer throughout China and abroad. He has regularly appeared in international music festivals: the Edinburgh International Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center Festival of Contemporary Music, Berlin Art Week, Torino Art Festival, and other festivals held in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. His musical collaborations also include the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Dutch New Orchestra, China Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, China Radio National Orchestra, Shanghai National Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Taipei National Orchestra, Guangdong National Orchestra, Macau Chinese Orchestra, and Singapore Chinese Orchestra. He has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, Musikverein (Golden Hall in Vienna), and Lincoln Center in New York City. His work features solo pieces for pipa, concertos, and traditional repertoires, and he actively engages in contemporary chamber music.

Professor Zhang maintains a lifelong devotion to academic research. Together with three professors from the Central Conservatory, he has been working on a historical preservation project, Xian Suo Bei Kao, imparting, performing, and eventually completing restoration of 1,814 manuscripts from the Qing Dynasty.

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世界着名的琵琶艺术家张强教授是中国中央音乐学院中国音乐系琴弦乐器部主任。

1987年从CCOM毕业后，张教授作为琵琶教师已经投入了近三十年的时间，一直致力于CCOM的教学工作。他曾担任国内外重大器乐比赛的评委，并被邀请到许多教育机构讲学。张教授除了传统的系统技术训练方法外，还注重培养学生的音乐意识，并强烈要求学生在表演中探索和展示个性。他的许多学生脱颖而出，成为中国最高级别比赛的全国冠军。

张教授是国内外的活跃演员。他经常出现在国际音乐节上：爱丁堡国际艺术节，哈德斯菲尔德当代音乐节，唐格伍德音乐中心当代音乐节，柏林艺术周，都灵艺术节等在中国大陆，台湾，香港和澳门举办的音乐节。他的音乐合作还包括圣彼得堡爱乐乐团，奥菲斯室内乐团，布鲁克林交响乐团，中国国家交响乐团，荷兰新乐团，中国交响乐团，香港爱乐乐团，中国国家广播电台管弦乐团，上海国家交响乐团，香港华人乐团，台北民族乐团，广东民族乐团，澳门中乐团和新加坡华乐团等。他受邀在卡内基音乐厅，柏林爱乐音乐厅，维也纳金色大厅，纽约市林肯中心演出。他的作品包括琵琶，协奏曲和传统曲目的独奏作品，并积极参与当代室内乐。

张教授一直致力于学术研究。他和三位来自中国管理学院的教授一起，一直致力于一个历史保存项目，西安索K考，演出并最终完成清代古代谱系的全面（1814年）手稿音乐。