Professors

余丹红 Yu Danhong

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.

陈鸿铎 Chen Hongduo

Chen Hongduo, PhD, is a professor and PhD advisor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, head of the music analysis teaching and research office, chief professor of the SHCM western music analysis & research team, council members of Society of Wester

Professor Chen has made scholarly visits to Vienna Conservatory, the Humboldt University of Berlin, Paul Sacher Foundation in Switzerland and Darmstadt Summer Course. He became a visiting scholar to the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2014.

He published the book of Series of Doctor Dissertations in Music, which won the Shanghai Outstanding Achievement Award for graduate students in 2006 and the excellent theory prize of the ninth China Golden Bell Awards, and many other treatises, textbooks and dissertations. He teaches courses of Music Analysis and Thematic Research and Gyorgy Legiti’s Music Study to undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students.

陈其莲 Chen Qilian

Qilian Chen, Chinese-Belgian soprano, professor at the Voice and Opera Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a postgraduate supervisor.

Chinese-Belgian soprano, professor at the Voice and Opera Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a postgraduate supervisor. 

Chen was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province. She received the bachelor’s degree from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music and taught at the school after graduation.

In 1985, she continued her postgraduate study in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Her excellent performance granted her the exception to obtain master’s degrees in Opera and in Chamber Music. She worked as a teaching assistant to her supervisor for seven years until her supervisor passed away.

Chen participated in many international singing competitions and won awards in International Vocal Competition ´s-Hertogenbosch, Pavarotti International Vocal Competition, Queen Elisabeth Competition and others.

Her performance of “Madame Butterfly” and “Turandot” was shown in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and America. Plenty of solo concerts, oratorios and music festivals she attended won her the comment of “the ideal Madame Butterfly” and “the perfect singing” by authoritative critics.

Her records including “Puccini’s Aria (Chinese Song Album)” and “Orchestral Music of Richard Strauss” are popular in Europe, America, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

She has been teaching in the SHCM since 2000 while earning fame on international stages.

陈星 Chen Xing

Professor at the Voice and Opera Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, office director of bel canto teaching and research, and a postgraduate supervisor.

Chen Xing, professor at the Voice and Opera Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, office director of bel canto teaching and research, and a postgraduate supervisor.

Chen was tutored by Zhao Jinghua and Zheng Huiqi at Gansu Art School and graduated in 1978. She studied under instruction of Professor Wei Xiu’e and Professor Ge Chaozhi at the SHCM and became a teacher of the school after her graudation in 1986 with excellent performance.

Chen has won the Excellent Performance Award at the 5th Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. She obtained the diploma for advanced opera from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She has acted leading roles in Mozart’s opera Marriage of Figaro, Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel, and Ermanno Wolf Ferrari’s opera Suzanne's Secret.

Chen has won the honor of the “Excellent Educator” of the SHCM for many times and was invited as the Chinese expert representative of the Shanghai International Opera Master Class. She also published a teaching material of Bel Canto for the country’s higher art colleges.

Chen has held concerts and lectures at the SHCM He Luting Concert Hall, East China Normal University, Hangzhou Normal University, Shandong College of Arts, Ningbo Grand Theatre, the Music Department of Shenzhen University and Shenzhen Grand Theater. In 2016, she held a concert to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her career as a teacher.

Many of her students have won awards at big international vocal competitions. Her student Han Peng won the first prize at Italy’s Virola International Opera Competition as a tenor. Baritone Wang Lifu was China’s only singer qualified for the 2011 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Tenor Zhang Long won the first prize at the Le Grand Prix de l’Opera and was enrolled by training centers of Bayerische Staatsoper and Salzburg Festival. Many of her students also work actively on stages or teach at colleges.

戴晓莲 Dai Xiaolian

Dai Xiaolian represents Guqin music traditions of the early 20th century and learned from celebrated Guqin masters including Zhang Ziqian, an elder in her family, and Gong Yi. She graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1985 and now serv

Dai Xiaolian represents Guqin music traditions of the early 20th century and learned from celebrated Guqin masters including Zhang Ziqian, an elder in her family, and Gong Yi. She graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1985 and now serves as professor of traditional Chinese music and post-graduate supervisor of the SHCM.

She has combined the Guangling School of Guqin art with advantages of other schools of Guqin performance to form her own unique performance style. Her performance skills are solid, well-trained and impactful. She is capable of playing all styles of Guqin tunes and is also exploring new trend of Guqin music. She is one of the most celebrated Guqin artists and instructors of her generation.

Dai is influential both home and abroad in Guqin art skills and have performed at numerous concerts. Guqin education materials including musical notations and DVDs compiled by her have been studied by Guqin learners nationwide.

She has published multiple solo records and videos and hosted multiple Guqin solo concerts. Her performance and education were highly popular.

She has served social positions such as deputy director of Guqin professional committee of China Kunqu Opera & Guqin Research Institute; vice chairwoman of Guqin professional committee of China Nationalities Orchestra Society; chairwoman of Shanghai Guqin Research Institute of Shanghai Musician Association and master of the oral intangible culture heritage of Shanghai.