Chai Liang | Founder ，Board of trustees，Music Director
Famous violinist, conductor and music educator
Mr.Chai began learning the violin when he was 10 years old and two years later hewas admitted into the attached middle school of Shenyang Music College. In1986, he obtained an exceptional admission to the Central Conservatory of Music excused from an examination under the supervision of Professor Lin Yaoji, afamous violinist. After four years, he graduated with acquiring the first placein scores during four consecutive years and got the opportunity to acceptfurther education in the University of Southern California with full scholar ship. After his staying in America for one year, he was allowed to studyin the Julliard School with full scholarship where he studies under the guide of Professor Doris Delay—“The Godmother of World Violin”,and got a master’s degree. Shortly thereafter, he began to be the assistant of Mrs.Delay andsigned a contact with New York Pike Performance Company. Then, his professional performance career started. He had ever taught in the workshop of Spain, Aspenand New York, America and Hong Kong and acted as competitions in America and Europe the judges. In 2003, he abandoned the cause in the United States back tohis motherland without any hesitate because of his attachment to homeland and determination to devote himself to China’s music.
He set his performance footprints all around the world, some famous concert hallsin the world have witnessed his performance, such as the Royal Academy of Musichall, the Soviet Union Conservatory named after P.I.Tchaikovsky Hall, Louvre Museum Concert, Germany Sturdys Recital Hall, Sydney City Hall, SingaporeVictoria Memorial Hall, Taiwan Concert Hall and other famous ones in America.What’s more, he often held solo or chamber concerts in several display halls of New York Lincoln center of Arts which was called the Palace of World Music. Hereceived numerous awards in the competitions such as the Second International Menuhin, the Third International Music Japan, Hennessy Music America and National Academy of Arts and Youth Violin.
He has performed with many symphony orchestras including the RPO London, Symphony Manchester,Symphony Gothenburg, Sydney Philharmonic Orchestra Australia (Concurrently thesolo player), Metropolitan symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Symphony Orchestra Korea,Symphony Orchestra Singapore, Grand Canyon Concert Symphony Orchestra America,Aspen Concert Young Artists Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra Wart burgand others in New York and Los Angeles, China Philharmonic Orchestra, ChinaMovie Orchestra, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestraetc. In 2007, the album—Pilgrim he performed with China Opera House Orchestra was rated as “The Top Ten Hot Records.”
He is not only expert in playing the violin, but interested in chamber music, conducting and he has gained some achievements. He created “Four Seasons Quartet Orchestraand” and “Riverside Trio Orchestra” to carry out a series of displays and keeprecords. His conducting career started from acting in New York ChelseaOrchestra America and the first display in the United Stated. After his back toChina, he has conducted many symphony communities, such as the UkrainianNational Symphony Orchestra, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai JazzOrchestra, Hunan Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, ShenzhenSymphony Orchestra, China Film Orchestra, Harbin Symphony Orchestra, XinjiangSymphony Orchestraand so on. He has led the CCPS Chamber Orchestra was led byhim to perform in the United States and display at the Kennedy Arts Center inWashington and be synchronized live online to the world. Since 2012, he hasbeen the permanent conductor of the Beijing Accent Symphony Orchestra.
Takingthe cause of carrying forward China’s music education as his responsibility,Chai Liang poured more enthusiasm into music teaching and spared no effort tocultivating a large number of students. In addition, he was active in thedisplay and conducting platform at home and abroad. He has taught at theJulliard School of Music, New York Brewer School of Music, ShanghaiConservatory of Music and Central Conservatory of Music. In 1997, Palman leftthe faculty at New York University; Chai became one of the two successors forhis prominent playing skills and teaching capacity. He also served as thedirector of the Central Academy of Music Violin office. His students were alsoactive in international competitions. He has also helped his students getfurther study or teach in the Julliard Conservatory, Curtis School of Music andother top music colleges in the world. In 2006, he was selected as the “NewCentury Excellent Talent Support Program”by the Ministry of Education and hedevoted himself to developing indoor music which combined the western classicalmusic and Chinese traditional songs with characteristics. In 2009, he launchedthe Music Sail Children funding project and wished to help the poor children faraway from the loneliness and self-esteem brought about by poverty by givinginstruments and teaching them playing. He has participated in the creation ofBeijing Keystone School, the CCPS and Hong Kong Lok Club to help more talentedchildren into the palace of music and to the international stage of music.
Besides arts, Mr. Chai is also keen onskiing, golf and charity. In 2009, he acquired the award of “Mr. Fashion AnnualPublic Character”elected by the magazine named Mr. Fashion as a charity musicperson.
