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Dr. Jun Qian has just been
appointed as the assistant professor of clarinet at St.
Olaf College,
Northfield, Minnesota.
His teaching experiences recently includes being the clarinet teacher
at Nazareth College，Houghton College and music theory teacher
at Eastman School of Music in New York State
as well as the guest clarinet faculty at New York State University at
Fredonia from 2005-2007. He was also
the principal clarinet of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra for its 2004-05
concert season and the faculty member at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
in China. He studied at Shanghai Conservatory of
Music, Baylor University and the Eastman School of
Music, where he earned his Master's degree in clarinet and completed his
Degree of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature with full
scholarship. His major teachers
include Kenneth Grant, Stanley Hasty, Richard A Shanley, Peng Gu and Jingli
Hong.
In
1997, He has won both first prize for Orchestral Excerpts Competition and
third prize for Solo Competition at the International Clarinet Association
Young Artist Competition, second prize for the Texas Young Artist Competition
and the first prize for Baylor Symphony 1998 Concerto Competition. He made
his Carnegie Hall debut in 2001, performing Weber Clarinet Concerto No.1 with
the Asian American International Orchestra, solo appearances with the
Collegium Musicum Orchestra, Eastman Chamber Orchestra, and released his first CD, Premiere
Rhapsodie, on the Nanjing Shine Horn label in China in 1999.
International
appearances as principal clarinet include the Eastman Wind Ensemble's tour of
Japan and Taiwan in 2000 and 2004, the North Carolina Festival Orchestra's
European tour, and was soloist in 2003 with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra,
the Xiamen Philharmonic and the Shangyang Opera Orchestra as musical
ambassador for the Eastman School of Music. In October 2004, he was invited
by the Sony Music Foundation as the feature soloist at International
Performing Arts Festival in Japan.
Additional principal appearances include Kent-Blossom Music Festival,
National Orchestra Institute and the American Wind Symphony. He appeared
recently with the Eastman School's Ying Quartet in Florida, and his recital
was broadcast over the National Public Radio affiliate 91.5 FM for the
"Live from Hochstein" concert series.
His
activities in 2006 as a teacher and performer included a clarinet recital at Paris, France
(by invitation of Centre Culturel de Chine a Paris), conducting the
Nazareth/Houghton Clarinet Choir as part of International Clarinet Choir
Festival at Eastman School of Music in October, and giving masterclasses
throughout China and Malaysia
during the summer. His video, entitled “Playing the Clarinet”, has also published in September, 2006 on the Nanjing Shine
Horn label in China. In
2007, he acted as the music producer and featuring soloist in the book “Complete
Musician” by Dr. Steve Laitz, Oxford Press.
Dr.
Qian was also a teaching assistant in clarinet and music theory at the
Eastman School of Music, and was instructor of clarinet, music theory,
Clarinet Choir and assistant conductor for the Youth Symphony Orchestra at the
Hochstein School of Music and Dance in Rochester,
New York. Since Fall, 2005, he has also returned to
Hochstein as the clarinet teacher as well as the clarinet section coach of
the Eastman Community School New Horizon Band.
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