25 Notable alumni of
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
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Shanghai Conservatory of Music is 1274th in the world, 275th in Asia, and 25th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from Shanghai Conservatory of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Zhou Jieqiong
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Zhou Jieqiong, known professionally as Jieqiong or Kyulkyung (in Korean), is a Chinese singer and actress. She is best known as a member of the girl group I.O.I after finishing sixth in the survival show Produce 101. She also became a member of Pristin and its subgroup Pristin V. She made her solo debut with the single "Why" on September 6, 2018.
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Xiong Ziqi
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- actorsingertelevision actor
- Biography
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Xiong Ziqi, known professionally as Dylan Xiong, is a Chinese actor and singer. He has been a member of Taiwanese boyband SpeXial since 2016.
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Xian Xinghai
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Xian Xinghai or Sinn Sing Hoi was a Chinese composer. He was among the first composers in his country to draw on western classical music and has influenced many later Chinese musicians. Xian composed in all the major musical forms (two symphonies, a violin concerto, four large scale choral works, nearly 300 songs and an opera), and is best known for the Yellow River Cantata upon which the Yellow River Concerto for piano and orchestra is based.
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Liao Changyong
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- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Prof. Liao Changyong, sometimes referred in English media as C. Y. Liao or Changyong Liao, is a Chinese operatic baritone and academic. He won first prize in three different international competitions in 1996 and 1997: Operalia; the French International Singing Competition of Toulouse; and the Queen Sonja Singing Competition. While his performance career has mainly been in China, he has appeared as a guest artist with opera companies and orchestras internationally. He is the president at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
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Cai Chengyu
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Cai Chengyu is a Chinese operatic tenor. He is known for participating in Hunan TV's singing variety show Super-Vocal where he first gained attention and recognition for becoming one of the top 6 leading singers in 2018. Cai joined Decca Records in 2019 and released his first solo EP Cai Chengyu in 2021. Cai made his opera debut as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni produced by Shanghai Opera House in 2020 and his debut at National Centre for the Performing Arts as Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow in 2023.
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Jiaxin Cheng
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Jiaxin Cheng is a Chinese cellist.
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Wang Jian
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Jian Wang is a Chinese cellist. A soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher, he was the first Chinese musician to ever sign an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon.
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Yu Long
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Yu Long is a Chinese conductor. He is currently artistic director and chief conductor of the China Philharmonic and of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and principal guest conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Yu is also the Chairman of the Artistic Committee of the Beijing Music Festival and co-director of the Music in the Summer Air Festival (MISA).
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Du Yun
- Occupations
- composermusicianperforming artist
- Biography
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Du Yun is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel's Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018, and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow. In its decade review, UK's Classic FM listed Du Yun's winning of the Pulitzer as No. 6 in "10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever." Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s. In 2024, Du Yun was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Liu Fang
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- performing artistmusician
- Biography
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Liu Fang is a Chinese–Canadian musician who is one of the most prominent pipa players in the world. Described in the media as the "empress of pipa" (L'actualité), "divine mediator" (World), "the greatest ambassadress of the art of the pipa", Liu Fang is known as "possessing virtuoso technique, grace and a unique empathy toward the music she plays – whether it is a traditional and folk tune or a modern Western composition" (All Music Guide). "She has an extraordinary focused, poised presence in her manner and her playing. In a lesser player this is just a trained formality; the body of material and techniques for her instruments is extremely highly developed, passed down through centuries. But Liu Fang’s total devotion to her playing has moved her beyond perfect execution to the creativity and flexibility that marks a true musician."(in the fRoots Magazine, 06.2006).
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He Luting
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- 1903-1999 (aged 96)
- Occupations
- composerpolitician
- Biography
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He Luting was a Chinese composer of the early 20th century. He composed songs for Chinese films beginning in the 1930s, some of which remain popular.
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Chen Gang
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Chen Gang is a Chinese composer best known for his work Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto. He is the son of songwriter Chen Gexin. Chen Gang started to learn piano and composition from his father and music teachers from a young age.
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Zhou Xiaoyan
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- singerclassical singer
- Biography
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Zhou Xiaoyan was a Chinese vocal pedagogue and classical soprano. Dubbed by The New York Times as "China's First Lady of Opera", she was considered to be the first important instructor of Western opera in China.
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Ying Huang
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- musicianvoice actoropera singeractor
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Ying Huang is a Chinese operatic soprano. She first came to international attention when she sang the title role in Frédéric Mitterrand's 1995 film Madame Butterfly and went on to an international career both in opera and on the concert stage.
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Urna
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- singer
- Biography
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Urna Chahar-Tugchi, known mononymously as Urna (stylized in all caps), is a Mongol singer and yangqin player from Inner Mongolia, China. She currently lives in Bavaria, Germany.
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He Xuntian
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- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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He Xuntian is a composer and professor of music composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
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Dantes Dai Liang
- Occupations
- writerpresentersinger
- Biography
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Dantès, or Dai Liang is a French singer-songwriter. He is also a trilingual host and a writer.
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Huang Ruo
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- 1976-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- composerpianistsinger
- Biography
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Huang Ruo is a Chinese-born composer, pianist and vocalist who now lives in the United States.
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Min Huifen
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- 1945-2014 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- composermusician
- Biography
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Min Huifen was a performer of the erhu, a traditional Chinese bowed string instrument, and a composer. She was considered the undisputed master of the instrument, nicknamed the "Queen of Erhu". She composed some of her own hits, including "Yangguan Melody – Three Variations" and "Wishes of the People of Honghu Lake." Her most famous piece was the Great Wall Capriccio, composed by Liu Wenjin with her assistance.
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Jue Yao
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Jue Yao is a Chinese violinist and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Hong Kong Children's Chamber Orchestra and the Hong Kong String Orchestra. She was a recipient of the Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in 2004.
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Di Yu
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- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Yu Di is a Chinese classical crossover singer-songwriter, musical actor and educator. A classically trained lyric baritone, he combines his singing career with his full-time teaching position at Shanghai Theatre Academy and gained nationwide recognition after participating in the first season of the singing competition Super–Vocal.
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Yi-Kwei Sze
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- 1915-1994 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Yi-Kwei Sze was a Chinese operatic bass-baritone and music educator.
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Wu Qian
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Wu Qian is a Chinese classical pianist.
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Lü Ji
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- 1909-2002 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- politiciancomposermusicologistmusic theorist
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Lü Ji, originally named Lü Zhanqing (吕展青; pinyin: Lǚ Zhǎnqīng), was a Chinese composer. He was also a music writer, educator, and administrator.
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Zhou Yi
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Zhou Yi is a Chinese pipa player.
