Xiao Chao, conductor.

Doctor of Conducting, China Conservatory of Music (in progress), Ｍaster of Conducting, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Ｍaster of Erhu Performance, Sichuan Conservatory of Music.

Xiao Chao is currently the principal conductor of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, chief conductor of Beauty & Melody Ensemble, chief conductor of Chengdu Modern Chamber Orchestra, and music director of Chengdu Choir of College Students. The former music director & principal conductor of the chamber orchestra of Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra, he has collaborated with various orchestras (including music conservatories and academies of arts) such as Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, China Film Orchestra, Sichuan Philharmonic, Chengdu Symphony Orchestra, Chengdu Chinese Orchestra, Shaanxi Symphony Orchestra, Shaanxi Radio Chinese Orchestra, Shaanxi Performing Arts Theatre Chinese Orchestra, Xi’an Symphony Orchestra, Shanxi Symphony Orchestra, Shanxi Chinese Orchestra, Gansu Symphony Orchestra, Ningxia Symphony Orchestra, Henan Symphony Orchestra, Guangxi Symphony Orchestra, Shenyang Symphony Orchestra, Jiangxi Symphony Orchestra, Guangdong Chinese Orchestra, among others.

Xiao Chao started learning conducting under conductor Tang Qingshi. Later he received the Ｍaster's degree of conducting from Shanghai Conservatory of Music under conductor Yan Huichang. He won the second place and the audience price from the Hong Kong International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music in 2011 and was selected by the Young Conductor Cultivation Program of the National Arts Foundation in 2015 and the Chinese Music Conductor Cultivation Program of the National Arts Foundation in 2017, respectively. In 2021 he entered China Conservatory of Music for his doctor’s degree of conducting under conductor En Shao.

Xiao Chao holds a large repertoire in conducting and has performed in a variety of concerts including:

2015, debut of Ming Feng, an original opera with Sichuan Symphony Orchestra; Diao Chan, an original opera with Gansu Performing Arts Theatre, participating the Second China Opera Festival and winning the group award of the 25th Shanghai Magnolia Theatre Performing Arts Award; Jiang Jie, classic Chinese opera for tens of concerts; conducting Ningxia Symphony Orchestra in the 3rd West China Symphony Week and the 3rd North-western Music Festival.

2016, conducting Shaanxi Chinese Cultural & Arts Group at Canal Festival Amsterdam and a tour across Australia; conducting Beauty & Melody Ensemble and State Academic Russian Orchestra named after V.V. Andreyev in a tour across Russia; conducting Bangkok Symphony Orchestra at Chinese New Year Concert; conducting Diao Chan, an original opera with Gansu Performing Arts Theatre, at National Centre for the Performing Arts.

2017, conducting Chengdu Modern Chamber Orchestra in Ding Yi Chamber Music Festival in Singapore; conducting Ningxia Symphony Orchestra in the 4th West China Symphony Week and the 4th North-western Music Festival.

2018, conducting Chengdu Modern Chamber Orchestra at Nuremberg Concert Hall for Chinese New Year Concert; conducting Yan Shen, an original opera in 3rd China Opera Festival and Excellent National Opera Performances in Beijing.

2019, conducting the national tour of the National Arts Foundation project Forever Shan Dan Dan with Shaanxi Radio Chinese Orchestra; conducting the national tour of the National Arts Foundation project Reiterate Good Sceneries of Shanxi with Shanxi Symphony Orchestra; conducting the national tour of Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra; conducting concert version of the opera Hao Jiao in Kunming.

2020, conducting the debut of grand opera Tong Xin Jie, with Sichuan Symphony Orchestra at National Centre for the Performing Arts.

2021, conducting Harbin Symphony Orchestra at the 14th National Vocal Exhibition and Performance in Harbin, hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of PRC in Harbin; conducting opera Tong Xin Jie at the 4th China Opera Festival.

Mr. Sima Jiannan is the first conductor who graduates from both Hochschule fur Musik “Hans Eisler” Berlin and University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is the guest conductor of International Education Centre (MEC). He has served as the Art Director and Conductor of Chinesischer Kinderchoir Berlin. Currently, He has served as the Art Director of Qingdao concert hall symphony orchestra, works as the Principal Conductor of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra, the Conductor of Sichuan Tianzi Guoyue Ensemble, the Principal Conductor of Shenzhen Grand Theatre’s Philharmonic Orchestra, the Art Director of Meiying Choir, and the Vice-president of Sichuan Qunwen Chorus Association. He has won the Golden Prize in Asian Piano Open Competition. He was invited to be the conductor of the China’s special concert of the 10th International Symphony Music Festival in Algeria.Mr. Sima has been on the podiums of many famous Chinese and overseas orchestras, including Brandenburg Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, China’s Central Opera House, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra and Ximen Philharmonic Orchesstra. He has held the baton for more than 300 concerts, among which symphonic concerts in 3rd Chinese Symphonic Music Weeks held by the Ministry of Culture, and Shangshan Shushui, a work supported by 2016-2017 National Art Found. Moreover, he has been selected to study in Germany by the Ministry of Education and to the Chinese Young Conductors Development Plan by the Ministry of Culture. He conducted the opera La Traviata and La Boheme in the Berlin concert hall, and original folk opera Ming Feng . He worded as a conductor of original folk opera ZhangSiDe in the 3rd Opera Festival held by Ministry of Culture , Opening ceremony of the 1st Sichuan Music Week and the 1st and 2nd Forest concert of Shenzhen.

Liao Yuanyu, a new generation of conductor specialized in the integration of Chinese and Western music, rose up to the spotlight of global music industry at the age of 24 and clinched the champion of the Third International Conducting Competition For Chinese Music early in 2017, being the first conductor from China,  Taiwan to bag the top prize, and at the same time, he was also awarded as the “Excellent Young Conductor ” in the competition. Just as praised by the mass media, Liao's music is both the capture of accurate rhythm and sensitive layers of voice parts and the performance of the unique tones of Chinese folk instruments and their free and flexible flow of melody. Dismissing an absolute boundary between Chinese and Western music, Liao, a music genius born in 1993, is standing as a representative of “the generation of conductor in Chinese-Western styles”, music critics remarked. To stand at the top to look from a broad view and to freely wander around in these two realms are reflected as his expectation on himself and the great hope of the international music.

In 2019, during the one-week music festival in cooperation with Decibells, a percussion band from Sinfonieorchester Basel, Liao served as the curator and chief conductor and concluded the first music feast of combining Chinese Orchestra and international percussion ensemble with a grand success.

Since 2018, he has been working as the invited conductor of Asian Composers League as well as the conductor of thematic concert at the closing of music festival.

After his graduation from Orchestral Conducting Institute, Taipei University of the Arts, and School of Chinese Musicology, Tainan University of the Arts, Liao Yuanyu succeeded in drenching himself in the profoundness of music from the east and the west with his rigorous and complete music educational background; and his conducting mentors include Prof. Gu Baowen, Prof. Zhang Jiayun, Prof. Ding Jiazhong and Prof. Fusao Kajima.

Born in Korea in 1981. She majored in composition while studying, and went on to study abroad after graduation. She studied at University of music and performance in Graz, Austria, from 2004 to 2013, and received a Ｍaster's degree in composition and theory of music , a Ｍaster's degree in conducting-operacoach. During her studies, she won the Korean Student Scholarship of Austria Korean Association and the Award for Foreigners' Grades Scholarship of Austria.        

2011 winner of the 30th Belvedere International Vocal Music Competition (in part of Opera Coach), won the first prize and special prize. And awarded for Achievement Award University of Music and Art Performance in Graz, Austria, 2012 and awarded for Best Director of the Opera 2017 Korea Music Award, etc.

She joined as guest performer of the Graz Opera House in Austria. For the Austria-Germany Opera Research Project "Zukunft der Oper" specially invited as opera coach in Graz and Berlin. She served as an opera coach at University of music and performance in Graz, performed many Operas such as La bohème, Le nozze di Figaro, L’elisir d’more, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Hänsel and Gretel, Cosi fan tutte, etc.

She returned to Korea, served as Music Director of the Hanuri Opera Company and Korea Arts Group and also as a Professor at Seoul Art from 2014 to 2017.         

She came to China in 2018, served as conductor of Sichuan Wunhua Symphony Orchestra, Chengdu Female Chamber Choir, and Sichuan Music Earth Choir.       

Currently serving as a foreign expert in the vocal music institute from the Academy of Arts of Chengdu Sports University, also as resident choral conductor of the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra Choir.

A new-generation Chinese pianist, Wan Jieni is the artist-in-residence of Sichuan Symphony Orchestra. She received the Ｍasters’ degree from Yale University School of Music and Munich University of Music and Drama. Later she received the Docter of Musical Arts in Piano at the National Conservatory of Music in Tromsingen, where she became a full-time lecturer. Wan Jieni is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Music Culture of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. At the age of 15, Wan Jieni was admitted to the Munich University of Music and Drama with the first prize in her major. At the age of 20, she appeared as a soloist with world-renowned conductors Zubin Mehta and Christopher Eisenbach. Up to now, she has collaborated with more than thirty orchestras globally. In 2021, Wan Jieni was named to the Gen.T Asia New Generation list, and in 2022 she was awarded the "International Outstanding Pianist" and "Most Influential Chinese and Western Pianist" by the "Global Diplomat Chinese Cultural Night".

Wan Jieni has frequently performed as a solo pianist with leading orchestras at home and abroad, including the Berliner Konzerthaus Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra of Israel, China Macao Orchestra, China Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, China Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, etc. Conductors she has worked with include Zubin Mehta, Christopher Eisenbach, Jaap Van Zweden, Laurence Foster, Pascal Roffey, Gilbert Varga, Yu Long, Tan Dun, Xu Zhong, Li Xincao, and Lü Jia.

Wan Jieni has performed in many prestigious concert halls and major performing arts venues, including the Berliner Konzerthaus, the Munich Palace Concert Hall, the Erfurt Theatre, the Barbican Centre in London, the Salzburg Hall, the Giuseppe Verdi Lyric Opera House in Italy, the Kobe Concert Hall in Japan, the Haifa Center for the Arts in Israel, the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in China, and the Concert Hall of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to including Western classical solo and orchestral works as an important part of her repertoire, Wan Jieni has also spared no effort in bringing classical Chinese solo and orchestral works to the stages at home and abroad. In recent years, Wan Jieni has been seeking more diversified forms of artistic collaboration, including the crossover performance "Fifteen Degrees - Wan Jieni's Piano and Digital Impressions" with new media artists.