About the Speaker

Prof. Ping JIN is currently Associate Dean (Research), Academic Leader and Head of Composition & Theory at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He was a professor at the State University of New York before he returned to China in 2008. Since then, he was a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music and served as head of the composition department at the China Conservatory of Music.

Ping JIN’s music has been commissioned and performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, Orchestra Academia China, EarPlay, Bang On A Can, and Newstead Trio. He won the first prize at the national art song composition contest in China and Golden Bell Prize for his Chinese orchestra work. His sextet received an award from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Ping JIN served as the president of the Society for New Music, and the guest professor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is currently a research fellow at the Central Conservatory of Music, and the Board Member of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).