Conservatory Professor, Master Instructor, renowned pipa virtuoso, Vice-President of the pipa
Commission of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society, adjudicator at the National Occupational
Skill Testing, assessment member of the National professional lute playing Competition, visiting professor
at the University of Michigan in the United States, head of the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra,
head of the Yang Jing pipa Chamber Orchestra. As pipa player Yang Jing plays both the interpretation
of traditional songs or interpretation of contemporary works. Her renderings have a strong artistic
vitality and appeal. She is known as "the contemporary most artistic charming pipa player".
Yang Jing has repeatedly won the China National Pipa Competition Award, visited more than 40 countries
and regions in the world. She was invited to participate in music and art festivals in Prague, Berlin,
Edinburgh, Chicago, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Rome, Brisbane, Canberra, Auckland, Mexico, Cuba, South Korea,
Japan, North Korea, and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other countries and regions.
Yang Jing worked with internationally acclaimed music groups in Berlin, Germany, Johannesburg,
Russia and many other Chinese and foreign Symphony Orchestra. She recorded several lute albums:
“Chasing Day", "Bury Me", "Qilian fantasy", "Mulan", "Pipa famous songs",
"Pipa classics fifty", "Wang Zhaojun" and the chamber music albums "Wen Ji Gui Han","Mengjiangnu", "Singing Sorrowful", "Jiang Qing month near people", "breeze",
"plum side Four Dreams" and a lot of music for movies and TV.
As pipa educator, many of Yang Jing students' received impressive awards at national pipa solo contests.
Some of her students have become the backbone of well-known orchestras at home and abroad. In parallel of
her teaching Yang Jing also devotes herself to academic research, writing about grasping the lute:
“the lute sound and Talk”, “Liu Dehai Pipa Teaching Thought”, “pipa music played in
the overall and local relations Exploration”, “Chinese lute tutorial”, “Insights to
traditional music playing spectrum”, “Pipa classics fifty papers and materials and the
“creative adaptation of the first Pipa solo études”.
Yang Jing hosted and participated in a number of teaching research projects, repeatedly invited to give
lectures at home and abroad. She also served as a visiting professor in many institutions.
Between 2006 and 2009 Yang Jing initiated and created the ”Yang Jing pipa Chamber Orchestra”
and “Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra”.
Her new concepts, the diversity of her creations and her worldwide cross-border cooperation, all these,
highlight Yang Jing as a contemporary musician who is constantly striving to pursuit the inheritance
and development of folk music.