zhou WANG

GUZHENG

A respected performer of the Shanxi zheng genre, Zhou Wang is a professor of guzheng at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, and director of the conservatory's Chinese Music Department. She also serves as vice president of the China Guzheng Society.

Zhou Wang learned from her father Zhou Yanjia, a world-class musician in the Qin (Shanxi) zheng genre. She then studied with Maestros Zicheng Gao, Zheng Cao, Sihua Xiang, Xiuming Yang, Shange Fan, and Zhaoyuan Shi, combining north-south flavors and inheriting the true art of zheng playing from different genres. She joined the Central Song and Dance Troupe in 1977, and has been an active performer in China and abroad. She was invited by the National Record Association to record The Tune of Qin Mulberry, a classical masterpiece of the Shanxi genre.

As a musical ambassador and soloist, Zhou Wang has toured internationally on behalf of China's Ministry of Culture on many occasions. As a scholar of musical exchange, she has given lectures at various institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2014, she held a zheng recital at Carnegie Hall.
 
Zhou Wang has served as judge and chairperson for many national and international competitions: the Golden Bell Award, Mandarin Award, Central China Television, National Chinese Instrument Competition, and Hong Kong International Zheng Competition. Throughout her more than 40 years of teaching she has fostered many outstanding young guzheng players, who have won prizes in major competitions around the world. Many of them maintain careers as educators, teaching the next generation of guzheng musicians.

In promoting Chinese music, Professor Zhou Wang has published recordings of many core classical repertoires, such as High Mountain and Running River, and albums featuring traditional guzheng solo works—Famous Melody of the North, Geniuses Traditional Zheng—as well as course materials for the Central Conservatory of Music. Her publication Qin Zheng Qin Ren Qin Sheng has been widely cited in Chinese musical journals.

Zhou Wang also arranges and composes traditional and contemporary zheng musical works. She arranged the Shanxi genre pieces “Huan Music,” “Lao Long Cries the Sea,” and “Ming Fei’s Resentment” (a guzheng and erhu duet). Together with Professor Zhenyu Huang, she has composed the contemporary zheng pieces “Fantasia in the West,” “Reflection,” and “Slowly Voice.”

张强
琵琶
 

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。