Yu Danhong is a Professor of Music Education and PhD advisor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She served as Dean of the Department of Music Education from 2001 to 2018 and currently serves as Curator of the Conservatory Library (since 2018). She was named a “Dawn Scholar” in 2005 and a “Leading Talent of Shanghai” in 2020.
Professor Yu is a board member of the Chinese Society of Education (since 2023), Vice President of its Music Education Branch (since 2019), and President of the Orff Committee of the China Musicians Association (since 2021). Internationally, she serves as a board member of the International Society for Music Education (ISME, 2020), the Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research (APSMER, 2009), and is a member of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME, USA), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and an honorary member of the Czech Society for Music Education.
Professor Yu leads several national and municipal research platforms, including the National Research Institute for Teaching Materials for K–12 Arts Education, and the Shanghai Research Base for Music Education and Teaching—a key humanities and social sciences initiative focused on values-based education. She also leads the municipal Innovation Team on “Theory and Practice of Music Aesthetic Education in Higher Education.”
She is Editor-in-Chief of theYearbook of Music Education in China and of several national curriculum projects, including high school and compulsory education music textbooks, as well as vocational education arts curriculum materials (Music Appreciation and Practice). She is a core member of the national curriculum standards development team for music and contributes to nationwide student assessment frameworks.
To date, Professor Yu has authored and edited over 130 books, translations, and textbooks, published 26 solo-authored academic articles, and produced a 50-episode documentary series titled Music Education in China.
