Su Chang
First, the introduction of the character
Su Chang, female, born in September 1986, is an associate professor in the Department of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory of Music.
Su Chang, who is committed to promoting guzheng and folk music art to the world, has toured dozens of performances in more than 30 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and has served as a judge for major international competitions for many times. She has edited many excellent textbooks such as "Learning Guzheng from Scratch", and students have won domestic and foreign awards such as the "Wenhua Award", and hundreds of lectures have benefited tens of thousands of people. She is also enthusiastic about public welfare, filming micro-films on caring for Alzheimer's patients, and innovating music therapy to help depressed people and autistic children recover.
Second, the main deeds
Let the melodious guzheng spread around the world to bring comfort to depressed patients
Su Chang is performing
In recent years, Su Chang has been praised by CCTV as "Glorious Bloom - New Top Ten Guzheng Players"; was selected as the first "Caring for Youth - Person of the Year" of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League in 2019; the 2020 Voice of the Future Creator of the Year; the 2021 Asian Emerging Listed Figure; the image ambassador of the "Sino-German Music Festival"; and the image ambassador of "Blossom Public Welfare". In the nearly ten years since he stayed on to teach, more than 10 students have won awards in major competitions, such as Zhang Yuxuan won the highest prize of the "Wenhua Award" of the 6th National Art Academy Ethnic Instrumental Music Exhibition of the Ministry of Culture in August 2017; Guo Anqi, who won the gold medal of the 4th Hummingbird International Music Festival in the United States in 2019; and Wang Mingxuan, who won the first place in the junior professional group of the 3rd International Youth Guzheng Competition. After hard work, two students were admitted to the double major of guzheng and art management of the Central Conservatory of Music, and realized the cultivation of senior talents in the composite music major. In recent years, she has performed hundreds of times, including large-scale symphonies, national large-scale celebration evenings, teacher-student concerts, public welfare concerts and other types, and served as the main speaker of more than 100 lectures. He has cooperated with more than 30 well-known orchestras at home and abroad such as the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the China Symphony Orchestra, the National Centre for the Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra, etc., and has completed solo, ensemble and concerto performances, and cooperated with famous musicians Tan Dun, Ye Xiaogang, Yu Long, Li Xincao and other artists. He also premiered Aircraft Carrier with internationally renowned conductor and San Francisco Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas at the Sydney Opera House. She was also selected for the Swiss Outstanding Youth Program and performed Mr. Tan Dun's Guzheng Concerto in Zurich, Switzerland. In recent years, Su Chang has premiered more than 40 works. Among them, "Zhongshan Suit" has toured more than 20 times in the United States and has been a great success. As a label of Chinese culture, Su Chang's music has gone out of the country and into the world. She has performed in more than 30 countries, and the Belgian flute master Chris has praised Su Chang's performance with "Your music is wonderful". The president of Goteborg University in Sweden commented: "Su Chang's music is full of piety and very touching. Mr. Fu Lin, a famous music critic and composer in China, also praised his performance of "Dacheng".
Su Chang played on stage
Su Chang also participated in many charity performances and participated in the filming of the micro-film "Love That Will Not Be Forgotten". Released on September 21, 2020, this day is Alzheimer's Day (Alzheimer's Day) and Su Chang's birthday, she used the form of a musical micro-film to call on more people to care for such a group of elderly people, with great love to influence the people around them. As the image ambassador of "Blossom Public Welfare", this non-profit organization focuses on helping people with depression, and Su Chang's music album works "Zen Tea Yiwei" and "Zhengyu" were selected for music therapy projects, trying to help depressed people alleviate their illness and relax their emotions and body and mind. She also participated in the "Diamond Lions" public welfare activities in Los Angeles, volunteered at the Los Angeles Nursing Home, and participated in the 2019 annual charity performance. An old man excitedly took her hand and said, "Thank you for coming here to play for us, you are like a noble white swan on stage"!
In addition, Su Chang has also served as a judge for major music competitions for many times, such as the "Eastman International Music Festival in New York", the Sino-German Belt and Road International Competition, the First Sino-British International Competition, the "Hong Kong International Guzheng Competition", the "Chinese Instrumental Music Television Competition", the "Liangshang Cup" Guzheng Competition, the "Japan Jinyi International Arts Festival" and so on.
Su Chang served as a guzheng judge in the final of the 2021 German Philharmonic Music Competition in China
While promoting guzheng art on the world stage, Su Chang still does not forget to cultivate the soil for the development of guzheng art, makes great efforts for guzheng basic education, and publishes a number of high-level basic education works. Her book "Learning Guzheng from Scratch" has been reprinted four times. Published in 2018, "Playing and Singing Ancient Poems" allowed guzheng art to absorb nutrition in classical literature, and once published, it topped the sales list of the "textbook category" of the Central Conservatory of Music Publishing House; "Talking Freely" became the best-selling book of Universal Audio-Visual Publishing House.
In addition, Su Chang also summarized the "good habit of playing" plan for young people to play guzheng, and conducted hundreds of lectures on "talking about guzheng" throughout the country; summarized the correct way of playing guzheng into training and practical methods such as "hand, eye, body, and law", which benefited hundreds of thousands of guzheng enthusiasts; and spread the teaching concept of the Central Conservatory of Music to grass-roots teachers and students on the road of lectures, so that more people could benefit. At the same time, she has also carried out lectures on guzheng art to well-known colleges and universities abroad, such as Columbia University in the United States, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and Monterrey Military Linguistic University, etc., contributing to the global promotion of guzheng art. She is committed to promoting The culture of Chinese music to the world, and the overseas students she teaches have also spread the art of guzheng to the United States, Canada, Australia and other places. The nation is the world! Making guzheng popular in the world like a piano is her mission and dream!
Su Chang teaches foreign students to play the guzheng
In the process of teaching and practical guidance, Su Chang attaches great importance to the improvement of students' political literacy and personal morality, so that they uphold the concept of "doing art before being a person". While guiding students to improve their professional level, it also cultivates students' sensitivity and attention to the national cultural and artistic policy, and leads students to participate in more theme art works of the times by example. To provide more display platforms for students, in 2017, the "Changxiang Zheng Troupe" was established, which strives to cultivate the collective spirit of cooperation among students, improve and exercise students' professional ability in rehearsal, at the same time, accumulate teaching experience in guiding rehearsals, show the teaching achievements of the Central Conservatory of Music in the tour, and hope to play an exemplary role in the teaching of guzheng ensembles and the performance of new works in various higher music colleges.
In the zither "Chang" sound, the strings move Yan'an - Su Chang Guzheng lecture, Su Chang communicated with the parents on the spot
On the basis of completing the syllabus, she gives targeted guidance according to the students' individual strengths and characteristics; continues to study and explore music culture and art, continuously optimizes the teaching of guzheng majors, guides students to fully absorb ancient and modern Chinese and foreign artistic nutrients, and leads students to participate in large-scale literary and artistic performances and other artistic practices for many times.
Su Chang took a group photo with the students
The future of the guzheng industry has a far-reaching development, it has long become one of the most popular national musical instruments, focusing on the world, it is like a brilliant treasure, is emitting a brilliant light. (Capital Civilization Office)