Praised by the New York Sun as showing "exceptional talent for a woman of her age," Qing Jiang is emerging as a unique artist, who works passionately to reach others with her pursuits as a performer, teacher, and arts advocate. As a soloist, she has performed to acclaim across the United States and China in Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Jordan Hall, Steinway Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Central Conservatory in Beijing. Jiang has also appeared at many of America’s leading music festivals including Music@Menlo, the Steans Institute at Ravinia, Yellow Barn, the Perlman Music Program, and the Aspen Music Festival, where she performed as a soloist with the American Academy of Conducting Orchestra. Through these festivals, she has worked closely with leading pedagogues including Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Gilbert Kalish, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Lawrence Lesser, Menaham Pressler, and the Weilerstein Duo.

Passionate and dynamic as a chamber musician, Jiang was a founding member of the NEC Honors Ensemble Trio ING, and she has collaborated with notable artists including Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, Bonnie Hampton, members from Takács Quartet and Peabody Trio.

In 2011, with her duo partner, she performed Schumann Violin Sonata in D Minor in Carnegie Hall as part of Christian Tetzlaff’s Professional Training Workshop. Of their performance, the New York Times wrote that the piece’s "turbulent contrasts and lyrical interludes … were passionately rendered by these two fiery musicians whose vigorous playing elicited sustained applause." Her upcoming engagements include concerts with Chameleon Arts Ensemble, debut with Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, and trio-in-residence at the Silicon Valley Music Festival.

A native of Zhenjiang, China, Jiang began studying piano with her mother at age three. She gave her American debut recital at Arizona State University at age 17, where she subsequently was offered a four-year full scholarship to study with Caio Pagano. Upon graduation, she received the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke national scholarship, and continued her graduate studies at the Juilliard School with Robert McDonald. Jiang holds a doctoral degree in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Wha Kyung Byun.

Committed to education, Jiang has been on the Piano and Chamber Music Faculty at New England Conservatory's Preparatory School since 2010. In addition, from 2008–2011, she served as the Coordinator of the Secondary Piano Program in the NEC College, and in the summer of 2012 she joined the faculty at the Yellow Barn Young Artist Program. In the fall, Jiang also began appointments as Staff Pianist and Musical Studies faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.

B.M. Arizona State University, M.M. The Juilliard School, D.M.A. New England Conservatory. Also faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Ke Xu 徐可, composer

Composer Ke Xu was born 1986 in Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China. Hailed by Chicago Constellation Salon as "hyper-expressive", "creative and gorgeous" by CCTV— the Music Channel of China’s Central Television, and reported by other media such as New York public Radio—Q2, Brooklyn Rail and Shanghai Daily News Paper, Ke Xu's music has been performed in many countries and cities in the world, such as Charles-based Music Center "The Kitchen" (New York), Jordan Hall (Boston), Constellation (Chicago), Hongkong Art Center, Beijing Music Hall, Shanghai Music Hall, Shanghai He Luting Music Hall, Wein Morden (Vienna), Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, etc.

His music has also earned awards, such as the first prize of 2013 Mivos I Creation International Composition Prize; first prize of The International Young Composer Project of 2012 Beijing International Modern Music Festival; second prize in the 2010 China National Composition Competition of Solo Cello Works; third prize in The Third Liu Tianhua TMSK International Chinese Composer Awards for Chinese Traditional Instruments; News&Media Grand Awards of the 2008 Liu Tianhua TMSK International Chinese Composer Awards (this award only grants for one winner a year). His compositions have been invited to perform at the 2014 MATA Festival, the 2012 Beijing International Modern Music Festival and also at the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival in two consecutive years (2010 and 2011).

His ensemble for traditional Chinese music "The landscape of Mongolia grassland " was selected in the music album "The Sound of China" by Chinese Central Propaganda Department; his string quartet "Tai Chi" is programmed by Mivos String Quartet for their world-performance tour; the Solo cello piece "Withered Rose" had been selected as the reading test repertoire of the Cello Department at Shanghai Conservatory of Music (2010-2012). Some of his compositions have already been published by Shanghai Music Publishing House, Central Conservatory of Music Publishing House (Beijing), Harmony Publishing House (Taiwan).

Education
Earning Master Degree with Academic Honor in Composition and Music Theory under composer Kati Agócs at the New England Conservatory, Ke Xu was one of the top-ranked graduates from Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2011, studying with Chinese composer Chen Gang, the author of the violin concerto Butterfly lovers. Other compositional teachers whom Ke Xu studied with include Robert Beaser, John Haiss, John Mallia, Xu Yi, Yang Liqing, Qu Xiaosong, and An Chenbi.

www.kexumusic.com
(2014)

三位中國青年音樂家日前在在紐英崙音樂學院喬登廳的音樂會中大放異彩。青年小提琴家于翔、鋼琴家蔣晴動人的演出，以及青年作曲家徐可的世界首演曲目「天際鴻音」，贏得觀眾起立喝采與樂評高度評價。 現分別於紐英崙音樂學院攻讀碩、博士學位的于翔和蔣晴，是音樂界矚目的青年音樂家。26歲的于翔出生於內蒙古，11歲考入上海音樂學院。 2012、2014年分別完成紐英崙音樂學院學士和極高榮譽的音樂文憑學位。他曾獲得2010年梅紐因國際小提琴比賽首獎等多項國際大賽獎項，曾受邀在世界各地音樂節、音樂廳，與許多知名管弦樂團合作，最近還以傑出藝術家頭銜在美國公共廣播電台「今天」節目接受訪問和演出。 蔣晴來自中國鎮江，也曾在許多鋼琴大賽中獲獎，獲茱莉亞音樂學院碩士文憑，曾與多位著名小提琴家合作演出。 兩位青年音樂家以高超的琴藝、充滿感染力的琴韻，演繹莫扎特「E大調慢板，K261」與「C大調 Rondo，K373」、貝多芬「小提琴與鋼琴奏鳴曲C小調第七號，OP.30.2」、德布西「小提琴與鋼琴奏鳴曲G小調，L140」，以及拉威爾「茨岡狂想曲」。 上海音樂學院出身的徐可，是2013年「I Creation 」全球華人作曲家大賽首獎。2011年在紐英崙音樂學院攻讀碩士時，與同窗的于翔成為好友。「天際鴻音」是受音樂會主辦單位中華表演藝術基金會委託，特為于翔譜曲，當晚進行世界首演。 于翔絃下的琴音潔淨無比，充滿魔力。與蔣晴指下的旋律完美結合。100分鐘的音樂會有若彈指，讓觀眾陶醉不已。結合現代和蒙古傳統音樂元素的「天際鴻音」亦是當晚驚喜，獲得音樂評論網站The Boston Musical Intelligencer樂評Jim McDonald對作曲和演奏者的高度讚賞。