YIN Qing Composer
YIN Qing is Vice Chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, Director of its Creative Committee, Member of the 8th and 9th National Committee of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Artistic Guidance of the PLA, first-class composer and former head of former General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe, and a well-acknowledged expert who receives a special allowance granted by the State Council.
He created more than 1,500 pieces of musical works, widely-popular songs including March into the New Era, Sing in the West, the Heavenly Road, My Land, I Am A Solider, In the Bright Sunlight, Don't Ask Why, Army Soul on the Border, Rain in the Spring for the Century, Song of Blossom, Reed Catkins, Look into the Moon, When Your Gentle Hair Touched My Gun, All for the Party, Warrior and the Mother, In the Time of Peace, Song for Our Flag, Road to Revival, Work Together for the China Dream. Apart from his songs, he created operas the Party’s Daughter (co-production) and Song for the Canal, and dance drama Mazu has been widely-acknowledged. He also composed for televisions, such as New Forth Army, the Last Generation of Cavalry, Love between Sky and Sea, Promise, the Rise of Rural Official, The Hundred Regiments Offensive. More than 300 pieces of his works has been awarded in various national art contests, with multiple awards given for “Five-One” Project orchestrated by Publicity Department of the CPC, Wenhua Award orchestrated by the Ministry of Culture, People’s Liberation Army Art Award, Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, Award of Golden Disc of China. He served as art and music director in multiple high-level art and cultural events for the government and military.
ZOU Jingzhi Librettist
ZOU Jingzhi is Vice-president of the Beijing Writers’ Association. Born in 1952, he has his ancestral home in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and he grew up in Beijing. He has published over 20 poems, essays and novels, including ZOU Jingzhi Poems, Building No.9, and A Collection of ZOU Jingzhi’s Plays. He has been involved in the creations of more than ten films, including The Grand Master, Coming Home, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles and One Second; over 500 episodes of TV series, including Kangxi’s Incognito Travel, The Fragrance of Chinese Scholar Tree Flowers in May and The Eloquent JI Xiaolan; five dramas including I Love Peach Blossom and Bosom Friends; and four operas including The Banquet, The Chinese Orphan and The Long March. His works have carried off many major awards both at home and abroad.
LÜ Jia Conductor
LÜ Jia is Artistic Director of Music of National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), and Music Director of China NCPA Orchestra, and former Music Director & Chief Conductor of the Macao Orchestra, prior to which he has acted as Music Director of the Verona Opera House, Italy, and Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz De Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Spain.
LÜ Jia has conducted in as many as 2000 music concerts and operas in Europe and the United States. The world renowned opera houses and symphony orchestras he has cooperation with include: Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra, etc.
As the first Asian conductor assuming the director position in national opera house of Italy, he is proclaimed as "a conductor who has a deeper understanding of Italian operas than Italians" by the Italian music commentators. In 2007, he was awarded "The President Cup" by the Italian President for his exceptional contribution and outstanding achievements made in Italy, followed by the acclaim as the "Best Opera" of Europe for the La gazza ladra that he conducted in "Rossini Opera Festival" held at Rossini's hometown Pesaro.
TIAN Qinxin Stage Director
TIAN Qinxin is President of the National Theatre of China, National First-Class Director, Member of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC, an expert enjoys a special allowance from the State Council, a talent included in the “Four Kinds Talents in the First Batch” by the Publicity Department of the CPC, Member of the 12th Central Committee of China Democratic League, and Deputy Director of the Cultural Council of China Democratic League.
Her representative works include dramas Field of Life and Death, Turmoil, Chinese Orphan, Red Rose and White Rose, Stories of the Ming Dynasty, The Yellow Storm, Green Snake, Romeo and Juliet, Beijing Fayuan Temple, and Listening to Monk Hongyi; opera The Long March; musical A Moment of Remembrance; Kunqu Opera The Peach Blossom Fan 1699; the first and second seasons of the talk show China in Stories; the innovative cultural programme China in Classics; and the epic performance Great Journey to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC.
YANG Xiaoyang Stage Director
YANG Xiaoyang is former Vice Chairman of the China Dancers Association, a national first-class choreographer enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, one of the “Four Kinds of Talents in the First Batch” in the National Publicity and Culture System, and a winner of the “Wenhua Award for Best Director”.
YANG Xiaoyang was the chief director and chief creative director of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Seventh Military World Games in 2019. He was the chief director of Stride Forward, the Nation, a theatrical performance held in 2019 to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC, Our Forty Years, an evening party held in 2018 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Reform and Opening-up, Under the Party Flag, an evening party held in 2017 to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese PLA, The Eternal Long March, an evening party held in 2016 to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Red Army Long March, and the evening parties held by the Central Military Commission to express sympathy and solicitude for the veteran army cadres in Beijing from 2014 to 2018. He was the planner and chief director of Railway Guerrilla, a large-scale red classic dance drama premiered in 2010, and The Takeoff of Ningxia, held in 2018 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Founding of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. From 1998 to 2019, he was the director of every year’s Double Support Gala and Evening Party for Veteran Cadres. For many times, he has been the director of “Hundred Flowers Welcoming Spring”, a Spring Festival gala organised by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the “Chinese Gala”, held by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.
YANG Xiaoyang was a co-director of Victory and Peace, an evening party held in 2015 to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Victories of the World Anti-Fascist War and the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, The Road to Revival, a large-scale music and dance epic staged in 2019, Picture Scroll, held at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and Red Army Flag, held to celebrate the 80th Army Day.
YANG Xiaoyang has created dance dramas including The Moon Over the Helan Mountain, The Legend of the Heroes in the Lyuliang Mountains, Railway Guerrilla, Serving the Country with Supreme Loyalty, Taming of the Princess, LIU Hulan, Heroic Sons and Daughters, etc. He has created songs and dances including Love in December, In the Name of Youth, Red Flag Fluttering, The Great Wall of Flesh and Flood, A Soldier’s Diary, Motherland, Please Review, etc. His representative operas include The Long March and The Watcher. His representative dancing works include When Maple Leaves are Red, Across, Striding Over, Dress, The Natural Moat, Like Water, and so on.
YANG Xiaoyang won the Gold Award in the Fifth and Sixth National Dance Competition, the Gold Award for Creation in the Second and Fifth CCTV Dance Contest, the First Prize for Creation at the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Theatrical Festival of the Whole Army, the Gold Award at the April Spring Friendship Art Festival, North Korea, the Gold Award for Choreography in the First Dandelion Competition, the “Five-One Project” Award for 11th Spiritual Civilisation Construction in Shanxi Province, the “National Project to the Distillation of the Stage Art” Award, the “Five-One” Project Award by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, and the “Wenhua Award”.
MA Yansong Set Designer
He is devoted to exploring the future road of architecture, advocating the combination of the urban density, function and the landscape prospect to create a brand-new urban civilization age with human spirit as the core by rebuilding the emotional connection between human and nature. Since designing Flowing Island in 2002, Ma Yansong has practiced this declaration of the future habitation dream worldwide with the works full of imagination such as Absolute Tower, Harbin Theatre, Hutong Bubble 32, Erdos Museum and Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Fast Company selected him as “Top 10 Most Creative Persons in Global Architecture Circles 2009” and “Top 100 Most Creative Persons in Global Business Circles 2014” successively. In 2010, RIBA awarded him the international honorary member. In 2014, he was selected as “Young Global Leaders 2014” by the World Economic Forum. MA Yansong studied in Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and later graduated from Yale University and got the Master’s degree. Currently, he is a professor of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and a visiting professor of Tsinghua University.
SONG Li Costume Designer
SONG Li was the costume designer for Red Cliff, a large-scale newly-produced epic, and Zheng Kaofu, a newly-produced history-themed Peking opera.
She is a costume designer at the Song and Dance Ensemble of the PLA General Political Department.
Her representative works include The Road to Revival, a large-scale national music and dance epic staged to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the PRC., the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Paralympic Games, the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Summer Games Shanghai, dances Thousand-hand Bodhisattva, Soldiers and Guns, Tashi Delek, Across, War Horse Neighing, Ode to Peony and The Petrel, acrobatics Pretty Young Chinese Opera Characters, Concerto-White and White Rhapsody, Ballet on Shoulder and Bowl on Head, China National Acrobatic Troupe SPLENDID, dance dramas Thousand-hand Bodhisattva, A Handful of Wild Jujube, Wild Zebra, Mulan, The Red Clouds Over the Horizon, A Dream of Red Mansions, Red River Alley, Xishi, Jasmine Flower, Farewell to My Concubine and Stage Sisters, ballets Moonlight Reflected on the Er-quan Spring and Eight Heroines, large-scale live-action performances Lijiang and Impressions of the West Lake, and the NCPA’s large-scale newly-produced epic Peking opera Red Cliff.
HU Yaohui Lighting Designer
HU Yaohui is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Stage Design, Central Academy of Drama, and a famous visual artist. He is Deputy Secretary-General of the China Institute of Stage Design and Director of the Lighting Design Society. He has created hundreds of different types of lighting designs and visual works. With his emotionally delicate, reserved and elegant creative style, he is honoured as “a visual designer with the solidest literary background” by professionals. He has won various awards including the China Drama “Golden Lion Award for Stage Design” in 2004-2007, the title of China’s “Top Ten Stage Designers of the Year” in 2014 and 2017, the “Wenhua Award for Lighting Design” by the Ministry of Culture (six times), the Excellent Stage Design Award” at the First and Second China Opera Festival, and the Award for Lighting Design for the APEC Conference. His representative works include operas TU Youyou and Yimeng Mountain Range, large-scale live-action landscape dramas The Legend of ZHUGE Liang and The Panshan Mountain, etc. He has published a monograph entitled “Hu Yaohui’s Stage Lighting Art” and several professional papers including Visual Forms and Reconstruction for Stage Art.
HU Tianji Video Projection Designer
HU Tianji is the video projection designer of the NCPA opera The Dawns Here Are Quiet and the drama commission LIN Zexu, a co-production of the NCPA and Guangzhou Dramatic Arts Centre.
After graduating from the Fresco Painting Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, HU went to France for advanced studies at the L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (LISSA), majoring in film and TV animation. After returning home in 2007, he founded the Zhengyue Image Studio and began to work on CG effect design for interactive video projection.
His representative works include LI Yugang’s poetic song and dance drama Picture of Four Beauties, large-scale operas The Dawns Here Are Quiet, SU Wu of the Han Dynasty, Canal of Destiny, Regret for the Past and Red River Valley, large-scale musicals Jasmine Flower, The Splendid Library and Perhaps Tomorrow Belongs to me, large-scale children’s musical Legends of Beijing, large-scale dance dramas Goddess of the Luo River, WANG Xizhi, Let’s Dance Together and The Twenty-Four Solar Terms as well as its European revival and tour, dramas Peer Gynt, QIU Jin and Man in the Mirror, large-scale acrobatic drama Ghost Romance, and puppet drama Fly, Red-Crowned Crane.
CHEN Minzheng Hair Style Designer
CHEN Minzheng is the holder of National First Class Artist Professional title. Having worked as a hair style designer in the film and TV industry for more than 40 years, he is now Deputy Director of the Make-up Committee, China Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers. He is also the founder and artistic director of Beijing Hanzheng Makeup Schools. He was the chief hair style designer at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
CHEN Minzheng has made hair style designs for films including A Simple Noodle Story, The Revolution of 1911, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Phurbu & Tenzin, Daming Palace, Shouting, Boonie Bears, Starfire and Divergence, TV series including The Empress of China, Empresses in the Palace, The Legend of Miyue, Chinese Hero Zhao Zilong, Chuang Guandong, Yangko Dance, Heros in Sui and Tang Dynasties, Journey to the West (1985), and Water Margin (new version), over 1,000 episodes in total, opera Turandot, directed for the Bird’s Nest by ZHANG Yimou, and dramas Wind Blowing Bukui, White Gate Willow, Civilian Confucius, etc. Recently, he made hair style designs for films Lotus Prince Ne Zha and The Three Kingdoms, and TV series Nü’er Hong and The Legend of SU Mo’er.
CHEN Minzheng has won many prizes including the Golden Statuette Award for Makeup Design by the China Film and TV Series Association in 1998, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2012, the title of Outstanding Contemporary Makeup Designer by the China Film and TV Series Association in 2002, the Golden Eagle Award for Best Art Designer, the National TV Literature Starlight Award for Makeup Design, the title of China’s Best Hair Style Designer for TV Series, and the Award for Special Contribution to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In addition, he served as a judge for the Ninth CCTV Model TV Competition, the National Makeup and Hair Style Design Competition by China Artists Association and the 33rd Paris World Cup Competition China Division. For many times, he has given lessons at Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Communication University of China, Hong Kong Institute of Education and other colleges.
WANG Danrong Sound Effect Designer
WANG Danrong is a graduate of the Department of Recording Art, Beijing Film Academy, Sound Art Director of the State Production Base of China Film Group, a member of the China Film Association and a national first-class sound engineer that enjoys special government allowances of the State Council.
WANG Danrong has cooperated with many well-known directors such as FENG Xiaogang, CHEN Kaige, CHEN Guofu, XU Ke, HAN Sanping, HUANG Jianxin and ZHAO Baogang. He has won awards including the Best Recording Award at the 28th China Golden Rooster Awards (The Founding of a Republic), the Best Sound Award at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flam), and nominations for Professional Sound Awards at many film festivals such as the China Golden Rooster Awards, Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. In 2015, he served as a member of the Jury of the 30th China Golden Rooster Awards.
He has offered recording services to more than 50 films including Sorry Baby, A Sigh, Happy Funeral, Together with You, The Phone, A World Without Thieves, The Promise, The Banquet, Assembly, Forever Enthralled, If You Are The One, The Message, The Chinese Orphan, Beginning Of The Great Revival, Where Are We Going? Dad, White Haired Witch, One Step Away, Run for Love and Skiptrace.
CAI Jun Sound Designer
CAI Jun has been devoted to stage sound performance and design for many years. He ever worked at China Children’s Art Theatre, and then he joined NCPA. During this period, he pursued advanced studies of opera stage sound production at Opéra Bastille Paris and New National Theatre of Japan, applied in Rigoletto, Tosca and other operas, and achieved favorable performance effects.
In recent years, he has served as sound designer in inaugurating performance of International Folk Festival, Peking Opera Red Cliff (Children’s Version), Meeting under Five-ring Olympic Flag and other operas. He has participated in stage sound design of the large-scale song and dance epic drama The Road to Revival as NCPA production. Meanwhile, he is also an expert panelist for construction and reconstruction of many domestic theatres, providing advice for sound system solutions of newly built theatres.
JIN Jifeng Props Designer
JIN Jifeng is a member of the NCPA with a degree in stage design from the Department of Stage Art, Central Academy of Drama.
JIN has participated in the production of the large-scale dance epic The Road To Rejuvenation, the theatrical performance A Millennium Promise at the “Belt and Road” Summit, the Gathering to Celebrate the Spring Festival of 2018 organised by the State Council, the Tea Party 2019 organised by the CPPCC, a theatrical performance in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Return of Macao, and operas Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata, Otello, The Ballad of Canal, Samson et Dalila, The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Rusalka, King Lear, Der Rosenkavalier, etc.
JIN has designed stage props for the Tea Party 2020 organised by CPPCC; operas The Long March, Jinsha River, LAN Huahua, Marco Polo, 170 Days in Nanking, Ode to the Lotus Flower, On the Way to Poverty Alleviation; children’s opera Effendi; dramas The Crossroad, True Love Knot, February, The Count of Monte Cristo, Look West to Chang’an, Princess Deling and Empress Dowager Cixi, Bird Man, Mogao Grottoes, Desire Under the Elms, The Merchant of Venice, Listening to Monk Hongyi, etc.
HUANG Xiaoman Music Director
HUANG Xiaoman is an opera music director, a national first-class performer, a pianist, Directing Manager of China NCPA Chorus, a council member of the China Musicians Association, a delegate to the Seventh National Congress of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Vice Chairman of the Dongcheng District Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Beijing City, and Chairman of the Dongcheng District Musicians Association. She used to be Vice President of China National Opera House. She is also a member of the Ministry of Culture “Evaluation Committee of Senior Professional Titles”, the “Wenhua Award” Jury and the “National Project to the Distillation of the Stage Art” Jury, and an expert who enjoys special government allowances from the State Council.
HUANG Xiaoman began to learn the piano at a young age and later graduated from the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music. She joined the China National Opera House in 1976. During her decades of opera career, she has accumulated about 100 Chinese and foreign classical operas in her repertoire, and served as a music director and artistic director in many operas. In 2000, she served as Vice President of the China National Opera House. In 2009, she participated in the establishment of China NCPA Chorus.
In 1999, HUANG Xiaoman planned and launched “Chinese and Foreign Art Song Concert” series; she served as the chief planner and artistic director of “Chinese Heart”, a large-scale concert held on Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Return of Macao, and won the “National Excellent Performance Award” by the Ministry of Culture that same year. In 2000, her story was reported on CCTV “Son of the Orient”. In 2001, she acted as the chief planner and artistic director of the “World’s Top Three Tenors’” concert held at the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, Beijing in order to bid for the “Olympic Games”. Since 2002, she has been a jury member of the Bel Canto Group and Chorus Group in the CCTV Young Singers’ Grand Prix; in 2011 and 2014, she served as a judge for the CCTV Piano and Violin Competition. Since 2008, she has served as the music director in the CPA opera commissions including Xishi, The Orphan of Zhao, A Village Teacher, The Ballad of Canal, Visitors on the Snow Mountain, FANG Zhimin, The Long March, The Dawns Here Are Quiet (performed for exchange in Russia), LAN Huahua, etc.
JIAO Miao Chorus Master
JIAO Miao is a resident conductor of the China NCPA orchestra and a conductor of the China NCPA Youth Ensemble Orchestra. She studied under famous Chinese conductor Professor WU Lingfen at the Conducting Department of the China Conservatory of Music, and also received guidance from Mr. YAN Liangkun, a well-known conductor. In 2014 and 2015, she made an exchange visit to the USC Thornton School of Music and Los Angeles Opera on invitation.
As a resident conductor, JIAO Miao participates in making a schedule for more than 100 performances to be given throughout the year by the China NCPA Chorus. She serves as the chorus master in Chinese and foreign operas produced by the NCPA, including Xishi, Carmen, La Traviata, Turandot, Tosca, The Chinese Orphan, The Red Guards on Honghu Lake, A Village Teacher, Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Dawns Here Are Quiet, Visitors on the Snow Mountain, Rickshaw Boy, etc. She has planned and conducted a series of distinctively themed concerts, such as Listening to Golden Years, Wonderful Harmony, Love in Autumn, etc. JIAO Miao has served as a chorus master at lots of concerts given by famous conductors - she organised choral rehearsals for Verdi’s Requiem, presented by the NCPA in cooperation with Chung Myung-Whun, receiving high recognition and praise from the maestro; organised choral rehearsals for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor in a performance co-given by the NCPA and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. In addition, JIAO Miao has accumulated rich experience in interpreting art choruses - she conducted the China NCPA Chorus in singing composer GUO Wenjing’s a cappella Echoes of Heaven and Earth, which was published on CD; conducted Jiangchengzi, a choral work composed by Mr. Qigang Chen. In recent years, JIAO Miao has served as a chorus master in a series of important performances including Enduring Memories of Hangzhou at the Opening Ceremony of the G20 Summit, A Millennium Promise at the “Belt and Road” Forum for International Cooperation, etc.
Meanwhile, JIAO Miao has planned and involved herself in 100 public-spirited performances given in a series of art popularisation and education activities organised by the NCPA; hosted lots of choral art salons rich in content and various in form, which are much liked by art lovers.
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