Professors

杨学进 Yang Xuejin

Yang Xuejin is a famous soprano, professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music’s voice and opera department, postgraduate supervisor and deputy head of the folk style vocal music teaching and research office.

She had studied under instruction of vocal music educator Hu Jingfang and later received training from vocal music educators Wang Pinsu and Zhou Xiaoyan after becoming a teacher of the SHCM after graduation to improve her education and singing skills. She is good at singing folk songs of Chinese ethnic groups, songs of Old Shanghai, foreign art songs, operas and musicals. She has sweet singing voice, great compass, good singing skills and appealing performance. She has formed unique education methods and designs tailored classes for different students. She is good at teaching Chinese folk vocal music and ethnic minority vocal music mainly for sopranos and tenors.

She has hosted more than 90 solo singing concerts at home and abroad and published eight solo CDs and DVDs. She has also compiled two titles of textbooks and has created an original musical “Beauty in the Wind”.

She has won the following prizes:

First prize at China’s second ethnic minority vocal music competition

“Horse Prize” and TV “Golden Eagle Prize” for her music TV special “Home in Yunnan”

Best Works Awards from the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee for her songs “Bright Sunny Sky in new century” and “Step in the new rhythm”.

She has performed at the prominent Spring Festival Gala for multiple times and audiences were impressed by her singing of the song “There is a beautiful place” in 1999’s gala.

于丽红 Yu Lihong

Yu Lihong is a renowned soprano, vocal music professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, national first-level artist and postgraduate supervisor. She is also a board member of China Traditional Vocal Music Arts Institute and executive board memb

She graduated from the SHCM with a bachelor’s degree and the Chinese Conservatory of Music with a master’s degree.

Yu returned to the SHCM to work as a teacher in September 2006 after resigning from Shanghai Ensemble.

Yu has received government organized vocal music prizes as followed:

Third prize of the third national vocal music competition and the golden prize of the third opera song competition organized by Ministry of Culture in 1996.

The first prize in the professional group of traditional Chinese vocal singers at the eighth national young singers’ TV competition in 1998.

The “Golden Trumpet Award” as the top ten singers loved most by the audience in China’s first Broadcasting Arts Awards in 2001.

She has staged multiple solo concerts at Ukraine’s Grand National Theater, Tchaikovsky School of Music, Shanghai Grand Theater, He Lvting Concert Hall and Beijing Concert Hall. She has performed in more than 20 countries and regions in the world and was regarded as the “nightingale from the east and the singer with a heavenly voice”.

She has played leading roles in Opera “The Communist Party’s Daughter” and Singing and Dance Drama “White Haired Girl”. She has published albums such as “Flying to the sky” and “China’s singer series—Yu Lihong”. She also performed in music TV video clips such as “Dialogue across the century”, “Permanent home”, “Oath under the Communist Party’s flag” and “Entering the new age”. She also has sung theme songs or interludes for multiple movies and TV series.

In recent years, Yu has been invited to serve as judges in domestic and overseas vocal music competitions. Her students have won a number of awards at vocal music competitions.

詹永明 Zhan Yongming

Zhan Yongming is a renowned bamboo flute performer and educator, professor and postgraduate supervisor of the Folk Music Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCM), head of the SHCM Wind Music Teaching and Research Office and vice presid

Zhan gained his fame when he won the top prize of a folk instrumental music competition (bamboo flute group) held by the Ministry of Culture in the 1980s. Over the past few decades, Zhan has won in many domestic and overseas competitions for his excellent bamboo flute performances and composition works. He has nurtured numerous bamboo flute performers and has made great efforts on the academic researches on the Chinese bamboo flute culture. So far, Zhan has given performances and lectures in over 20 countries and regions.

Zhan is one of the world’s representative figures of the bamboo flute music and he was the first outstanding Chinese orchestra musician to represent China to visit Taiwan. In 1988, Zhan was awarded as the national first-class performer. In 1991, he enjoyed the special subsidy offered by the State Council. In 1997, he moved to Singapore and became a teacher of the Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He was recruited as a folk music professor by the SHCM in 2004. In 2013, his main course of the bamboo flute music was listed as a key course by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and a high-quality course by the SHCM. In 2016 and 2017, he was appointed as the chief professor of the SHCM Chinese Orchestra. His stories have been recorded in books including the Famous Figures of the Contemporary Arts Circles in China.

张显平 Zhang Xianping

Professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCM); Postgraduate supervisor of the SHCM; Member of Chinese Musicians' Association; Deputy director of the Public Liaison Committee of Chinese Musicians’ Association; Member of the CPPCC Shanghai Com

Professor Zhang Xianping graduated from the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fudan University and got his master degree from Codarts University for the Arts in 1991. He had served as the cultural counselor at Consulate General of the PRC in Los Angeles, vice chairman of the CPPCC Pudong Committee, deputy director of Pudong Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and TV, deputy director-general of the construction headquarters of Shanghai Oriental Art Center and the center director and vice president of the SHCM.

As an expert in cultural policies, Professor Zhang Xianping has a thorough understanding of cultural institutional features and policies in Europe, the US and advanced Asian countries. He offers courses “Cultural Policies Comparison and Contrast”, “Cultural Industry and Management”, etc.

Research direction: cultural administration and cultural policy; European and American cultural ecology; management of cultural industry

赵维平 Zhao Weiping

Zhao Weiping, PhD, professor, PhD advisor and director of the department of music of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, also serves as academic leader in the Chinese classical music history, director of the SHCM Chinese and Japanese Music and Cultur

Fields of study:

Chinese classical music history, Asian music, the musical relationship between China and other Asian countries.

Courses:

An Introduction to Eastern Music, the Music History in Tang Dynasty, Research on Oriental Music, Literature Reading of Chinese Classical Music, Music on the Silk Road. All the above courses have been taught to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students. He has published a number of books about music history and culture and more than 70 theses.