Chen Qian Executive Principal

Ms. Chen Qian is an accomplished violinist and a music educator. She studied at the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School and was later admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) with excellent student scholarship. In 2006, Ms. Chen began to study her master degree as a postgraduate in CCOM and was mentored by Professor Chai Liang, meanwhile she acted as the teaching assistant of Mr. Chai.

As a violin performer, Ms. Chen ever traveled to Taiwan for cultural exchange and successfully held a solo concert in Kaoshiung. She used to cooperate with Hunan Symphony Orchestra to play the debut violin concerto Poetry of Life. The premiere won enthusiastic responses and unanimous good reputation among media. In 2007, she shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk-Road band. In the same year, she put on a joint performance Brahms Piano Quintet with her mentor Chai Liang in the Siemens Chamber Music Foundation concert. In 2008, she cooperated with China Broadcasting Movie Symphony Orchestra to perform the noted violin concerto Butterfly Lovers, which was conducted by Fan Tao in Beijing Concert Hall and she also held a solo in CCOM that year. Next year, she acted as the soloist of the concerto in the Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall and two years later, she played solo again in Zhengzhou grand theater.  Chen Qian is dedicated to the promotion and development of chamber music and she has pulled off two successful summer chamber master classes. She founded CCPS Chamber Orchestra in 2014 and gave a special concert in Kennedy Center for the Performing Art in 2015. During her time in the US, she visited Virginia Tech and Johns Hopkins University consecutively. In that year, she received an invitation and obtained full scholarship from Moss Arts Center and began her deep learning of the chamber music with the top masters Shmuel Ashkenasi, David Ehrilch and Mathias Tacke. She was highly praised for her play in the final concert.

Chen Qian commits herself to the spread and education of classical music. She co-established a funding project, Wing of Music—Children Musical Charity, with her mentor Chai Liang in 2009. She is in charge of both execution management and overall operation of the project. For six years, recipients benefiting from her devotion to help disadvantaged groups and children with music have exceeded over one thousand. During the previous Asia-pacific symphony association summits, Chen Qian have ever lectured in Hong Kong and India as an invited guest and shared her concepts and experience with principals of symphony orchestras from other countries on the helping underprivileged children with classical music.

Chen Qian is currently incumbent Executive Principal of the CCPS. She advocates an idea that the most best music education shall be supported by rigorous academic study. She stresses on an all-round abilities development of students to give a space of diversification for them.