Yan Jiemin
Erhu
Erhu player Yan Jiemin is a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. She graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music, where she studied erhu and composition with professor Wang Guotong and professor Xu Zhenmin. Yan was six years old when she began her erhu education and has been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards both as a performing musician and as a teacher. In 1982 she took first place at the National Junior Competition for Solo Performance on Folk Instruments, and in 1994 she won the first prize at the Taipei Chinese Instrumental Competition. In 2002 she received the 8th National Prize for Young Teachers in Higher Education, awarded by the Henry Fok Education Foundation.
Yan is active not only in China, but also on the international stage. As a recording artist, she has a number of solo albums to her name. As a performing musician, she has given numerous recitals in many countries and regions in Asia, Europe, and Australia, and has appeared with many composers and orchestras at some of the world’s most renowned music festivals. These festivals include the English Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Holland Festival, the Australian Adelaide Festival, the Musicades in Lyon, the Berlin Festival, the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival, the Theaterspektakel in Zurich, the Melbourne Festival, Settembre Musica in Turin, the Taiwan Traditional Arts Festival, the Beijing Music Festival, and the Macao International Music Festival.
