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Great bassoon performerQi Liu

Professor Qi Liu, a great bassoon performer, composer and educator

Before he retired, Professor Qi Liu was the chief bassoon performer of the Central Philharmonic Society, the National First Class Actor, the president of the Chinese Academy of Bassoon Studies, the enjoyer of the National Government Allowance, the committee member of the arts qualification examination committee of the Ministry of Culture, and the member of the Chinese Musician Association. He is known as "the father of China's bassoon" and "the founder of China's bassoon". He has made outstanding contributions to the development of Chinese bassoon major and performing arts. His artistic life is included in many monographs such as the twentieth Century Chinese Dictionary of celebrities.

Professor Qi Liu was born in a Chinese music family. His father, Mr. Chengfu Liu, wrote the first Chinese Dictionary of music (the first edition of the commercial press in 24). Professor Qi Liuhas learned the piano and the violin since his childhood. In 1947, he was admitted to the National Music Academy's youth class. In 1950, the hospital was placed in Central Conservatory of Music. Professor Qi Liu has a superb and solid bassoon playing technique. Since 1956, he has been the chief manager of the central orchestra. He went to dozens of countries and regions in the United States, the former Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, Spain and other countries and regions. He was welcomed and praised by foreign friends and musicians from various countries. As a conductor, Professor Qi Liu often recorded music for movies and TV dramas. He had been the command of the Beijing “Bells Symphony Orchestra" and the art guidance and special command of the Henan Youth Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Professor Qi Liu also has brilliant talent in command and composition. He has created many works of solo, chamber music and Symphony Orchestra, and has been recorded and published by radio stations, television stations, record companies, publishing houses and so on. In addition to a number of musical works (such as the opera "Xishi", the Symphony Orchestra "the Taiwan edition" and so on), he also created the grand chorus "Mt Fuji storm" and so on, and recordings for a number of TV plays and film soundings.

As a great educator and education reformer, Professor Qi Liu has taught at Central Conservatory of Music, the Xi'an Conservatory of Music, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Wuhan Conservatory of Music, and other art colleges and universities for many years. As the first Chinese in the world to play harmony with bassoon, Professor Qi Liu, in his playing and creation, insisted on teaching and writing a large number of teaching materials, such as "the Advanced Bassoon Etude", "the Bassoon Performance Law", "the Bassoon Examination Course", "the Bassoon Concerto" and so on. He also recorded “the Basic Course of Bassoon" (VCD). In 1978 he worked with the Beijing wind instrument factory to develop the reformedbassoon and won the "Chinese Science Conference Award".