JIN Ping (US)

• Professor, China Conservatory of Music

He was a professor at the State University of New York before he returned to China in 2008. Since then, he was aprofessor at the Central Conservatory of Music and was Head of the Composition Departmentat the China Conservatory of Music. He has been music director for MUSICACOUSTICA-BE1.JlNG,an international electronic music festival, since 2008.
Ping JlN's music has been commissioned and performed by many orchestras and ensembles such as the Cincinnati Symphony OrchestraChing National Sym phony Orchestrg, China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, Orchesira Academia China, EarPlayBang On A Can, and the Newstead Trio. He won the First Prize at the national art song composition contest in China and Golden BelPrize for his Chinese orchestra work, His sextet received a ward from the New York State Council on the Arts.Ping liN was born in China. He studied composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, the Syracuse Universitly, and the University of Cincinnati, where he received his doctorate.