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Jia Jia Qiao
When she was eleven years old Jia Jia passed the audition to be a percussion student at The Central
Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Years later she graduated and got the job as classical Chinese percussion
teacher at the same institution, which she still holds today. She has devoted herself to the performance of
contemporary music written for her by Asian and western composers. Her knowledge of both traditions
and her enthusiasm for new challenges enables her to perform different aesthetics of today’s music with
formidable ease, accuracy and passion.
She is considered one of the best Asian percussionists of contemporary music. In September 2008, Jia Jia
Qiao realized a long tour in Scandinavia, closing it with a concert at the New Opera House in Copenhagen.
In this tour she world-premiered three pieces that the audience greatly acclaimed and led to a huge success
of this tour. Together with Edition Svitzer Jia Jia decided to record the complete concert program, which gave
birth to her debut album - The Alchemist.
Wang Yunyue (piano)
Was born in Beijing. At the age of twelve she was enrolled in the Central Conservatory of Music to study
piano under the well-known piano teachers Prof. Zhou Guangren and Prof. Zhong Hui. Nowadays she is
teaching at this conservatory. As a performance teacher, she has been being awarded with the ‘Students
excellent performance’, and she’s recorded several CDs.