Professors

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.

叶登民 Danny Yeh

Danny Yeh had served as professional guitarist trainer at Taiwan University of Arts. He is now professor and postgraduate supervisor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He has cooperated with musicians such as Sarah Brightman, Dilber Yunus, Shin-i

Yeh cooperated with Shanghai Opera House’s orchestra to perform Butterfly Lovers’ Guitar Concerto in 2005. He was invited to attend the GFA Guitar Music Festival in the United States and the international guitar art festival in Singapore in 2006. He also cooperated with Japanese and South Korean guitarists to host a guitar summer camp in Qingdao in 2007. He held international guitar music festivals in Japan and South Korea in 2008 and 2010 respectively. He hosted the national guitar development seminar at the SHCM in 2009 and published China’s first academic thesis collection on classic guitar. The Butterfly Lover Concerto music scores revised by him was published in Japan in 2010. He staged a series of performance known as “Eastern Guitar’s new world” from April to December 2010 at Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, which was a major event in China’s guitar industry and boosted the development of the industry.

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.