Multicultural Concert - FREE March 27, 2009 8:00 PM Fenway Center, Northeastern University 77 St. Stephens Street, Boston, MA, 02115 Map Program Fusion 1* mp3 Yunxiang Gao, composer, pipa Impressions of Pipa* mp3 Zhang Maodi, composer Roundness/ Palingenesis/ Samsara/ Whirligig* mp3 Liu Sijun, composer Heaven, Earth, Human For Violin, Cello and Pipa* mp3 Luo Zijun, composer Culture::Music::Exchange (2009)* Benoit Granier, composer * Featuring musicians from Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China Leslie Levi, Zhongling Li, violins; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Patrick Owen, cello; Lingyan Zhou, erhu; Yunxiang Gao, pipa; Zhang Chen, Composer Orfeo in Asia mp3 III. Metamorphosis Su Lian Tan, composer Donald Berman, piano Selections by Dawson, Burleigh, etc. New England Spiritual Ensemble, Boston, MA I Hear a Voice mp3 King Jesus is Listening mp3 Oh Fix Me mp3 Live a Humble mp3 In His Care o mp3 Nobodys Fault mp3 I've Been Buked mp3 Ride in the Chariot mp3 The Peace Poem: Let the sun shine in the night time mp3 Anthony Paul De Ritis, composer Del Lewis, Benoit Granier, Arthur Rishi, Alexandra Sherman, narrators; Lingyan Zhou, erhu Yunxiang Gao, pipa Amir Milstein, flute Bahman Panahi, tar Apostolos Paraskevas, guitar Grant Smith, percussion Anthony Paul De Ritis, music director Tickets may be picked up in advance at the NU Box Office in the lobby of Blackman Theatre, 360 Huntington Avenue, or at the door on the night of the concert starting at 7:00 pm
	Donald Berman, Pianist American pianist Donald Berman is recognized as one of the chief exponents of new works by living composers, overlooked music by 20th century masters, and recitals that link classical and modern repertoires. He has established an extensive discography in the works of major American composers, including Ives, Ruggles, Kernis, Levering, Wheeler, Boykan, and many others. Mr.Berman's acclaimed 2-volume The Unknown Ives represents the only recording of the complete short piano works of Charles Ives extant. On The Uncovered Ruggles Mr.Berman offers premiere recordings of unpublished sketches, transcriptions, and realizations of Ruggles' music by John Kirkpatrick. His most recent recordings, Americans in Rome, and, with soprano Susan Narucki, The Light That Is Felt (Ives songs) were each named CD of the Month by BBC Music Magazine. Donald Berman has performed to critical acclaim at major venues in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. As an educator, Mr.Berman has presented recitals, lectures, and masterclasses in Israel, Italy, and throughout the U.S.; he teaches at Tufts University and directs the New England Conservatory Summer Piano Institute. A prizewinner of the 1991 Schubert International Competition, Mr.Berman studied with Leonard Shure, John Kirkpatrick, George Barth, and Mildred Victor. He lives with his wife and two children in New York City.
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China The Central Conservatory of Music is a holy palace for many musical talents in the country. For past 55 years, thousands of students have graduated from the Conservatory, some of them have established the international reputation. The students have won 481 prizes in major international music competitions, including the golden and silver medals in Tchaikovsky International Music Competition, 1801 prizes in national music competitions, 346 music compositions have been awarded in international and national competition. From 1987, 87 prizes for scientific achievements have been given to the CCOM. Having served for the past 55 years both as a music education center for training professional musicians and a research-composition-performance center for developing music education of society, the CCOM has grown into an institution of high prestige at home and abroad capable of offering the whole range of curricula for musical training, and representing the level of music education in China.
	Zhang Chen, Composer Zhang Chen was born in Mary 1983 in Chang Chun, China. She is currently in the graduate program of electronic music composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing where she studies with Professors Zhang Xiaofu and Chen Yuanlin, and sound design with Professor Benoit Granier. She began studying piano at the age of six with Professor Ren Hongjun and has performed in many festivals while a student at the middle school of the Conservatory in Jilin. Ms. Chen has won the second and third prizes in the Beijing Musicacoustica Festival, the only international modern electroacoustic music festival in China.
	Anthony Paul De Ritis, Composer; Professor and Chair, Music Department, Northeastern University; Planning Committee Composer Anthony Paul De Ritis' music has been called "revolutionary," "groundbreaking," "ultra-exotic" and "really cool." He is perhaps best known for Devolution, a Concerto for DJ and Symphony Orchestra premiered by Michael Morgan and the Oakland East Bay Symphony; featuring Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky as soloist. Devolution is the subject of several articles, a feature on Tech TV, and a case study in the upcoming book The Savvy Musician: Developing A Viable And Meaningful Career Through Entrepreneurship by David Cutler. His work with the pipa virtuoso, Min Xiao-Fen, has led to a series of compositions for the Chinese instrument, including Jeu de Paume for pipa virtuoso Wu Man and guitarist Eliot Fisk. The Prague Philharmonic and an ensemble of non-Western traditional instruments performed his Melody for Peace at UNESCO headquarters in Paris; its U.S. premiere was by the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. De Ritis completed his Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University of California, Berkeley; M.M. from Ohio University (2006 Alumnus of the Year, College of Fine Arts); and B.A. in Music with minors in philosophy and business from Bucknell University. He also studied at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, U.S.C., N.Y.U., and has an M.B.A. from Northeastern University. De Ritis will keynote the 30th Northeast Regional Conference of the College Music Society, speaking on "Music in a Changing Society" at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA. www.deritis.com
	Yunxiang Gao, Composer, Pipa Yunxiang Gao was born in 1984 in Qningdao, Shandong Province, China. She took piano with (Shi Caikun) when she was 3 and Pipa with  (Shao Xiuchong) since 5 and also studied music theory. In 1997, she studied in the Music School Attached to the Tianjing Conservatory of Music and majored in Pipa as professor (Liuhong)'s student. After she wrote her first composition around 2000/01 she decided to study formal composition with professor (GuZhimian) In 2004, she entered in Central Conservatory of Music and studied electronic music composition with Prof. (Zhang Xiaofu). During her apprenticeship, she premiered several performance of herself and composer Benoit Granier, these works were played across China. Her private teaching experiences started when she was still in middle school, and lots of her students later entered the Tianjing Conservatory of Music. She is not just a compose but also performer, she won the third prize of junior for performing in the Musical instruments Competition when she was 8. When she was 17, her Pipa work won the second prize for compositing and performing in the 3th Musical instruments Composition for professionals in Shandong Province. In her spare time, Yunxiang Gao also sings Chinese Opera, dance Jazz and does some paintings, she would love to expand her artistic into the composition. Gao Yunxiang's main acoustic works are: Sonw-for soprano Hua Gu-for Percussion Fusion-for Flute Clarinet and Viola Her main electronic works are: Aria-for pipa and tape Tian-yi-for tape and voice Thinking in the night-for Pipa and MAX composed in 2007 that was awarded with the B group Excellence prize at the 2007 Musicacoustica-Beijing Composition Competition.
	Benoit Granier, Composer Center for Electroacoustic Music, Central Conservatory of Music, China Benoit Granier is a French composer who currently lives between Beijing, Singapore, Paris and Dublin. Under the supervision of composer Donnacha Dennehy, he completed a PhD degree in Computer Music and Composition at Trinity College Dublin (2007), where he also lectured on the basics of Sound Synthesis and Composition, in addition to supervising student theses at Master's degree level. After working in diverse institutions in both Beijing and Singapore, he settled down at the Centre for Electro Acoustic Music of China (C.E.M.C.), part of the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. He currently teaches Computer Music, Composition, and Digital and Interactive Media. Prior to this he studied orchestration and orchestral conducting with French conductor Victor Costa, and Composition with Arturo Gervasoni. Over the past ten years, Dr Granier has also been active as a composer/visual artist. He has written for diverse media ranging from compositions for solo instruments (he is currently writing the last piece in a suite of twelve pieces for solo instruments) to composition for large orchestra. He has also extensively worked for mixed-media and pure electronics, and has recently developed an interest for the creation of composition for mixed ensembles integrating classical and traditional instruments and approaches. He is currently working on a set of compositions for electronics and Chinese instruments, (The first composition for solo Pipa and electronics received its premiere at the Beijing Modern Music Festival on May 29th.) Dr Granier's compositions have been played in Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, UK, China, Japan, Australia and America. He has also been invited to present work at numerous festivals including the Sonorities Festival (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University, Belfast), the International Computer Music Conference (Florida) and Beijing Music-Acoustica and is an active scholar in the fields of Composition, Musicology, Music Cognition and Computer Music.
	Leslie Levi, Violinist Leslie Levi began her musical training at the age of 5. A native of Paris, she attended conservatories at Rosny-sous-Bois and St. Maur before entering the Paris Conservatory at the age of 16, studying violin. Her past teachers include Marie-Claude Theuveny, Boris Garlitzky, Régis Pasquier and Akiko Nawashima; she has also attended master classes at Raphaël Oleg, Emmanuel Borok, Yair Kless, Alexandre Brussilovsky, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Donal Weilerstein, Hagai Shaham. Her accomplishments include performance under the batons of Pierre Boulez, Shlomo Mintz and Leon Fleisher as well as numerous concerts and recitals throughout Paris. As a chamber musician, she has played in festivals including La nuit des châteaux-musées and St. Jean de Luz and has also participated in workshops for new musical works. Recent credits include film music recordings, new music premieres and performance tours of Germany and Italy. She received the 1st Paris Prize by unanimous vote. Leslie is a 2007-2008 Fulbright award recipient and enjoys playing klezmer music; away from the violin, she enjoys Latin dance, ping pong and fine art. She is currently a Master of Music student at Boston University on a full scholarship in the studio of Dana Mazurkevich. Leslie was the Grand Prize winner of the 2008 Bach Competition at Boston University. She has been admitted to the Artist Diploma program at Boston University, starting September 2009, and awarded a full scholarship.
	Del Lewis, Narrator Del Lewis teaches advanced acting courses at Northeastern University. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild and worked as a professional actor for ten years, both on and off Broadway. Del was artistic director of Madison Repertory Theatre for three years. He was Director of Theatre and Head of the Graduate Acting program at UW-Madison prior to coming to Northeastern. Del is currently Director of the Center for the Arts at Northeastern University.
	ZhongLing Li, Violinist ZhongLing Li has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in her native China as well as in the US and Europe. She is the exclusive winner of the 2006 Arthur W. Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association. In May 2005, Ms. Li was awarded the Dan David Prize for Performing Arts, dedicated to only 20 people in the world with proven and exceptional excellence in sciences, arts, and humanities. She made her solo debut with the Boston Pops in May 2004 as the winner of the Boston University 2004 Soloists' Competition. Ms. Li holds both a Doctoral and a Master of Music degree from Boston University, where she studied with Prof. Dana Mazurkevich. During her studies at Boston University she was awarded distinctions such as the Grand Prize in the 2001 Bach Competition and recognition as an Outstanding Student in 2004. Ms. Li received her Bachelor of Music degree from Shanghai Conservatory, where she was winner of both the Shanghai Bach and Mozart Competitions. Ms. Li is a former member of the China National Symphony Orchestra, with whom she toured extensively throughout Europe and Asia. She currently teaches at Northeastern University Music Department.
	Zhang Maodi, composer Zhang Maodi is a Chinese composer currently living in Beijing. In 2004, she entered the Middle School affiliated with the Central Conservatory of Music. Miss Maodi was then admitted to the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music in 2007, where she began studying electronic music at the Center for Electronic Music in China (CEMC). Currently she is currently studying electroacoustic music composition under the direction of Professors Zhang Xiaofu, Jin Ping and Benoit Granier.
	Amir Milstein, flutist and composer A graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, Amir Milstein established his career in the world-music scene, founding acknowledged ensembles such as Bustan Abraham and Tucan Trio. Bustan Abraham is comprised of seven distinguished Israeli musicians, both Jews and Arabs, who have combined their experience as composers, soloists and heads of musical ensembles to create original instrumental music, which combines elements of both Eastern and Western traditions. The backgrounds of Bustan's members represent an astonishing variety of musical cultures, including classical Arabic and European music, Jazz, Indian, Turkish and flamenco music. Bustan Abraham's recordings and powerful stage performances are greeted with standing ovations all over the world.Mr. Milstein has collaborated with artists such as Zakir Hussein, Tito Puente, Ross Daly, Omar Farouk Tekbilek, and Mikhalis Nikoloudis, among others, and has participated in distinguished concert venues and festivals worldwide, both as a player and as a composer. He has also collaborated with several choreographers, with whom he has composed for modern and flamenco dance groups. Mr. Milstein has participated in musical shows for Israeli television and has played and recorded numerous albums with Israel's leading artists. As a music educator he presents workshops and lectures at schools, colleges and universities. Currently Mr. Milstein lives in Boston and performs with a wide variety of ensembles.
	Dimitri Murrath, violist First prize winner at the 2008 Primrose International Viola Competition, Belgian violist Dimitri Murrath has had his debut recitals in Jordan Hall (Boston), Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Royal Festival Hall (London), and Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels). Born in Brussels in 1982, Dimitri began his musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School studying with Natalia Boyarsky, and went on to work in London with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He graduated last year with an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian. He has won numerous awards, including Verbier Festival Academy's Viola Prize, New England Conservatory's Presidential Scholar Award, and a fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation. As a chamber musician, Dimitri has collaborated with violinist Gidon Kremer, whom invited him to his festival in Lockenhaus, Austria and to the Kronberg Academy's Chamber Music Connects the World project. Other artists with whom Dimitri has worked with include Menahem Pressler, Donald Weilerstein, Laurence Lesser, Paul Katz and Kim Kashkashian. In the spring 2008, he was invited to be part of the Ravinia Rising Stars Chamber Music Tour with violinist Miriam Fried. Other festivals include IMS Prussia Cove (UK), Ravinia's Steans Institute for Young Artists (Chicago), Verbier Festival Academy, Gstaad Festival (Switzerland) and Marlboro Music Festival.
New England Spiritual Ensemble, Boston, MA "Songs that soothe the soul" describes the traditional American Negro spiritual, which forms the New England Spiritual Ensemble's repertoire and frames its mission. Gospel which evolved from the traditional spirituals, can be more exuberant, but nothing touches the depths of the soul or connects with its yearnings more than the spirituals. Although not all of us learned them at the knee of a grandmother, the spirituals are part of the cultural experience of all of us - a uniquely American musical tradition born of suffering but infused with unshakable hope. Christina DeVaughn Cynthia Harmon David Howse Allyssa Jones Orlando Lightfoot Myran Parker-Brass Donnell Patterson Milton Wright
	Patrick Owen, Cellist A native of Michigan, cellist Patrick Owen has performed in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, the United States and Japan. Recent engagements include a performance of the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, performances with the Boston Chamber Music Society, a recital on WCRB's summer concert series in Boston's Hatchshell, and a New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Mr. Owen received his Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music. While a student at Eastman, he spent one year of study in Paris at the Paris Conservatory. He received a Master's degree from the Juilliard School in 1999, and finished Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University in 2007. Mr. Owen has been an honored participant at the summer music festivals of Aspen, Sarasota, Taos, Brevard and others. His teachers include Pamela Frame, Alan Harris, Phillipe Muller, Harvey Shapiro, James Kreger and Andres Diaz.
	Bahman Panahi, Tar The youngest son of a large artistic and cultivated family, Bahman Panahi was born into a world music, painting, theatre and calligraphy through the work of his brothers.  He chose for himself music and calligraphy, the former representing the rich history, culture and civilization of Iran, and the latter, a spontaneous medium representing images of Iranian creativity and taste. The relationship between these two artistic domains is Mr. Panahi's constant preoccupation.  Regarding music, Mr. Panahi studied the setar and tar with great masters of Persian classical music including Houshang Zarif, Mohamad Reza Lotfi, and Ataollah Zahed Shirazi. With respct to calligraphy, he obtained his Masters title from the Institute of Calligraphy in Iran under the direction of the great master Gholamhosein Amirkhani. Since 1990 Mr. Panahi has presented concerts, workshops, conferences, courses and exhibitions worldwide, including Iran, France, India, the Maldives, Cuba, Holland, England, Syria, Sri-Lanka, Tunisia, Nigeria, Morocco, Spain, Mauritania, Poland, the United States, Belgium, and Switzerland. Mr. Panahi has earned degrees at the Faculty of Arts of Teheran University and l'Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes. Mr. Panahi is a resident of Paris, France, where he is working towards his doctorate at the Sorbonne University. There he devotes himself to researching the relationships that exist between calligraphy and music in his dissertation entitled the Musicality of Lines and Points.
	Apostolos Paraskevas, guitarist Apostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy-nominated composer and guitarist. Classical Guitar Magazine/London acknowledged that Paraskevas was the only guitarist ever to have both a major orchestral performance at New York's Carnegie Hall and to perform there as a soloist dressed as the Grim Reaper! Dr. Paraskevas, a Lukas Foss protege of the early 90's, has for decades been a multi-published composer and recording artist. Paraskevas' major publishers include Berben/Italy, Clear Note/USA, Centaur and Bridge Records, Santerrelle Verlag/Germany, and PaNas/Greece. He received five First Prizes in International Composition Competitions and is the founder and Artistic Director for 16 years of the International Guitar Congress in Corfu, Greece. He is an Associate Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music.
	Arthur Rishi, narrator Arthur Rishi is active both as a musician and an arts administrator. As a singer, his recent appearances have included the title role in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito with Prism Opera, several performances of Handel's Messiah, including appearances with the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra in Los Angeles, as well as for the First Religious Society of Newburyport, and Carmina Burana with the Andover Choral Society. His operatic roles also include the Male Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia, Tamino in The Magic Flute, and Satyavan in Holst's Savitri. As a lieder recitalist, he has performed Schubert's Die schone Mullerin nearly twenty times, in venues throughout the Northeast and in Canada, including as featured recitalist for First Night Providence. He has made a particular specialty of the Evangelist roles in baroque Passions, including Bach's St. John Passion at Occidental College, and Keiser's St. Mark Passion at both Yale and Harvard. Other concert performances have included Schutz's Musikalische Exequien with the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Mendelssohn's Elijah with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. The Boston Globe recently said "tenor Arthur Rishi demonstrated sterling musicianship, sound technique and unaffected dignity," and "much of the best music was justifiably entrusted to... Rishi."
	Alexandra Sherman, narrator Alexandra Sherman was born in New York City but was immediately swept away to Cameroon, the first of many countries should would live in as the daughter of U.S. Diplomats Gil and Dona Sherman. Having spent her life overseas in Cameroon, India, the Ivory Coast, Israel and Cairo, Ms. Sherman has an exciting list of influences and multicultural perspectives to bring to her creative work. She finally returned the United States to earn an undergraduate degree in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley however, her passion was theater. Ms. Sherman has acted in numerous performances at Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse, including Adrienne Kennedy's She Talks to Beethoven, the musical Working, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Upon graduation, Ms. Sherman moved to Boston and began taking courses in Museum Studies at Harvard University extension and at the Massachusetts College of Arts. She has worked in various positions including at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, at the African Voices exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and at the Education Development Center in Newton, Mass. After a two-year stint on New York City's lower east side where she earned her Masters degree in Interactive Telecommunications at N.Y.U., Ms. Sherman now is a project manager in the Social Studies Division of Pearson Education.
	Liu Sijun, Composer Liu Sijun is a young composer, born in September, 1970 in a music aristocratic family, working with Electronic Music Center of Central Conservatory of Music as associate professor. He studied composition with professor Du Mingxin and French horn with professor Zhang Zhenwu at Central Conservatory of Music, and graduated from Central Conservatory of Music, awarded double Bachelor degree in composition and French horn in 1994. Liu Sijun held his graduating concert at Beijing Music Hall in June 1994, He began to produce works for many countries, which were performed in America, Canada, Singapore, Japan, South Africa and Hong Kong. He started to study electronic music composition with professor Zhang Xiaofu for his in-service master degree on September 1998 and graduated on June 2001. In 2005, he was invited as the judge for the second Chinese Golden Disc Awarding. In 2006, he attended in advanced studies at Santa. Cecilia in Rome, Italy as visiting scholar for one year, majoring in electronic music composition. Liu Sijun creates his music works in many fields. His main works are: The first Symphony Without End, Percussion Concerto Dong, Lun Fantasy. His main electronic works are: The legend of Hu Lun lake, Deep breath, The Dance of Flute, which has been performed in France. He composed for more than 40 films and teleplays, such as Tiangou luxun Bribe Dam street and Cell phone in which he worked with Sucong and Xu Zhitong.
	Grant Smith, Percussion A member of The Klezmer Conservatory Band, Grant Smith is involved in world music, jazz, classical, and dance projects in Boston and New York.  Mr. Smith has toured globally from Crakow to Thailand and New Zealand. He has performed with Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Don Byron, Garrison Keillor, and Jane Wang among many others. Percussion studies include Arabic hand drums with Jamie Haddad, Indian Tabla with Kazi Jalal, Afro-Cuban percussion with Enrique Pla, and Handance with Glen Velez, as well as drum set with Alan Dawson. The Boston Globe calls him a "brilliant improviser." The Boston Phoenix has noted his topflight "cross-genre" abilities. Grant has toured extensively and has seen music help bring understanding to people of different cultural backgrounds.
	Su Lian Tan, Composer and Flutist One of the most sought-after composers and flutists, Su Lian Tan made her first recordings as a flutist by age fourteen. By age seventeen, she was both a Fellow and Licentiate of the Trinity College, London. She has appeared with orchestras and ensembles worldwide. Her performances and performance of her music have been featured on radio's Morning Pro Musica, Dutch public radio, CBC radio, and many more. She has performed at Lincoln Center with many ensembles. Numerous ensembles have commissioned her, including the Grammy-winning Takacs String Quartet, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and the New Juilliard Ensemble. Moo Shu Rap Wrap, written for the Meridian Arts Ensemble, has been toured throughout the U.S., Europe, and South America and recorded. Additionally, Ms. Tan has performed with them in Amsterdam, The Hague, Germany, and at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Recent commissions and performances include a second quartet for the Takacs, a chamber opera composed with poet Anne Babson, the premiere of a work for Donald Berman/Dinosaur Annex and also a work for celebrated mime Yass Hakoshima and the Da Capo Chamber Players. Her work has been featured at the Ravinia Festival, Caramoor Festival, Summergarden at MOMA, Lincoln Center, and Le Poisson Rouge, among others.As Professor of Music and former Chairman of the Music Department at Middlebury College, she is known for her unique musical perspective and connecting to her students through the exploration of all kinds of music. In addition to teaching composition, she also coaches, conducts, and coordinates both student and professional concerts. Ms. Tan has garnered numerous distinctions, including grants from Meet the Composer, American Music Center, and the Argosy Foundation, awards from ASCAP, an Irving Berlin Scholarship award, Naumberg Fellowship, and a Vermont Music Teachers Association award. In addition to being the Chair of the Editorial Committee of Vox Nova Media for the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, she has been guest lecturer at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Dartmouth College, University of Colorado School of Music, among others. She holds degrees from at Princeton University, the Juilliard School, and Bennington College.
	Lingyan Zhou, Erhu Lingyan Zhou was born in Qidong, Jiangsu in November 1982. She started to learn Erhu when she was eight, then she entered the Secondary Art School Attached Nanjing Arts Institute and continued to learn Erhu under Professor Yihe Yang who is a famous Erhu player and educator. In 2000, Lingyan successfully held the first Erhu solo concert in the Nanjing Arts Institute Concert Hall. She toured in Taiwan. One year later, in 2001, she was admitted at the Beijing Central Conservatory Of Music with an outstanding result where she studied with renowned professor Hanyang Zhao. During her University, Lingyan joined the China Youth National Orchestra as a Chief of Erhu's part, accompanying many successful large-scale activities at inside and outside China. She was awarded the "People's Scholarship" for three consecutive years (from 2002 to 2005), and successfully enrolled to the M.A. program at the Central Conservatory Of Music. Under the guidance of Professor Zhao, Lingyan quickly improved. In 2005, She was awarded twice: a third prize of young specialized group in the International Erhu Competition and a silver medal of the China National Instrument Competition, ("Zhonglu Cup" and "Wenhua Cup"). Meanwhile, she began teaching the major of Erhu both in The Music School Attached To The Central Conservatory Of Music and the National Instrument Department of her university. She acted as an Erhu judge for level examinations for both local and overseas candidates. In the past years, Lingyan moved foreward to a successful carreer as a scholar, teacher and player. Many of her students entered famous specialized arts, such as the Central Conservatory Of Music, the Nanjing Arts Institute, the Harbin Normal University, the Beijing Vocational Institute of Local Opera and Arts, etc. In 2007, she joined the student union in her Conservatory as the sixth minister of External Relationship Department., and organized many activities such as performing at the Peking Union Medical College, the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Science and the Technology.
	Luo Zijun, Composer Luo Zijun was born in Changsha, Hunan in December 1988.She started to learn Piano and singing when she was five. She was invited many times to participate in the Hunan Sharon Arts Festival performances. In 2004,she entered  the Music School Attached to the Central Conservatory of Music and majored in musicology. For three consecutive years, she access to the first in the professional examinations. In 2006, she participated "China-France Solfeggio Art Week" in the performances. In 2007,she entered the Central Conservatory of Music. She studied Electronic music composition with Prof. Ping Jing; studied traditional composition with Prof. Sijun Liu; studied Sound Design and compositio with Prof. Benoit Granier. She is member of the Electronic Music Association of China (EMAC). She continue to study composition, her major works are: Opera- Compose for Beijing Opera and Electronic music. Flute Dance- Compose for Flute and Electronic music.    Heaven and Earth-Trio compose for violin, cello, piano. Musical Search for Utopia-Compose and music produced.