Professors

方琼 Fang Qiong

Fang Qiong graduated from the Voice and Opera Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She studied under Professor Zheng Ti and Professor Zhou Xiaoyan. As a government-sponsored scholar, she visited University of Maryland’s Music College in

Fang Qiong has held over 40 solo concerts in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, European, American and Southeastern Asian nations and regions. She has also been a jury for top national music and youth singer contests. For the 15 years in the Voice and Opera Department of SHCM, she has been devoted to teaching, and her students have won numerous awards in national contests, including National Youth Singer TV Contest and Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music.

冯长春 Feng Changchun

Feng Changchun, born in 1971 in Linyi of Shandong Province, received his PhD degree from the Chinese National Academy of Arts and is a professor and PhD advisor of the music department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Feng Changchun, born in 1971 in Linyi of Shandong Province, received his PhD degree from the Chinese National Academy of Arts and is a professor and PhD advisor of the music department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is also vice president of Chinese Music History Association, council member of Chinese Music & Art Association and Chinese Music Critics’ Association, project assessor for National Social Science and Art projects, expert reviewer for Humanistic and Social Scientific projects of the Ministry of Education, part-time researcher with Beijing Ethnic Music Communication Base. He has published more than one hundred treatises, and has 9 major works of books, editorials, translations, and has taken in charge of two national key projects.

He does research in contemporary music history in China and music aesthetics and teaches courses of Chinese contemporary music history, Chinese contemporary and modern music history, Chinese music zeitgeist in the 20th Century, Chinese art song history in the 20th Century.

葛毅 Ge Yi

Ge Yi, a Chinese-American professor, a postgraduate supervisor and deputy director of the Voice and Opera Department, learned from famous voice educators Professor Xie Shaoceng and his father, baritone Professor Ge Chaozhi.

In 1984, he graduated from the Voice Department in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and went to the Juilliard School for further study. In 1987, he was able to study from world famous tenor Carlo Bergonzi under full scholarship and advanced to Opera Zürich for practical learning. He has cooperated many times with first-class symphony orchestras and conductors in the world and became an active tenor performer on the international stage. 

Ge came back to teach in the SHCM in 2002. Over the years he has been sticking to voice and opera performance teaching and research. He advocates the cultivating pattern of introducing talents and going out to follow the world level. Many of his students have won awards in international competitions. Meanwhile, he has been communicating with top music academies, premium singers, conductors, opera and art directors home and abroad to promote education development in voice and opera. He is also invited to sit as guest professor or part-time professor in many music colleges.

顾平 Gu Ping

Gu Ping is a tenor who graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1988. He was tutored by famous vocal music educator Prof. Zhou Xiaoyan.Gu works at the SHCM as the professor of vocal music, executive deputy director of the Voice Opera Depa

Gu has performed in many operas at home and abroad including Wilhelm Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Bizet’s Carmen, Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and so on.

Gu has won the Baosteel Excellent Teachers award, SHCM He Luting Fund Award and the title of Shanghai’s Model Teacher. He was also invited as the judge of Golden Bell Awards and other vocal competitions.

郭树荟 Guo Shuhui

Guo Shuhui, a professor and PhD advisor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, head of the teaching and research office on Chinese traditional music theory, deputy director of the Theory and Critic Committee of Chinese Nationalities Orchestra Society

She conducts research in Chinese traditional music, Chinese traditional music in the 20th century, Chinese traditional music in the modern society and aesthetics of Chinese music. She teaches courses of musicology writing, an introduction to Chinese traditional instrumental music, an introduction to the aesthetics of Chinese and Western music, Chinese music, traditional music and modern society, Chinese traditional music and aesthetics of Chinese music.