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Bard BCOM Bard Conservatory Menu Academics sub- Programs Undergraduate Double Degree Graduate Vocal Arts Graduate Conducting Graduate Instrumental Arts Collaborative Piano Fellowship Advanced Performance Studies MA in Chinese Music and Culture US-China Music Institute Preparatory Division Virtual Summer Institute About Our Story Facilities Staff Faculty Contact Us Accreditation Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bard Baroque Ensemble News+Media Newsroom Events Live Video Archive Accepted Students Undergraduate Students Graduate Students FacultySearch Search Apply Inquire Events Support US-China Music Institute US-China Music US-China Music About Programs sub-menu Programs Undergraduate Double Degree Program China Now Music Festival Conferences Music at China Institute 华美音乐 MA in Chinese Music and Culture Events Support The US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music promotes the study, performance, and appreciation of music from contemporary China, and supports musical exchange between the United States and China. In partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, the Institute has embarked on the Chinese Music Development Initiative, creating several groundbreaking projects, including the first degree-granting program in Chinese instrument performance in a U.S. conservatory, the annual China Now Music Festival, an annual conference, and youth programs in Chinese music. Explore our Virtual Viewbook More Information at barduschinamusic.org DOWNLOAD THE USCMI DEGREE PROGRAM BROCHURE 中国民乐专业与文理学科专业学位项目 关于 × 巴德音乐学院之美中音乐研习院促进对当代中国音乐的研究、演奏和欣赏，支持美中音乐交流。与北京的中央音乐学院开始了中国音乐的发展计划，创建几个突破性的项目，包括第一个在美国授予中国器乐表演本科学位项目。现在我们创办了一年一度的纽约中国当代音乐节、年度音乐研讨会议、与中国音乐青年项目。 https://barduschinamusic.org Jindong Cai Director of the US-China Music Institute An orchestra conductor with a distinguished career, Jindong Cai spent many years at Stanford University before coming to Bard in 2017 to found the US-China Music Institute. Cai is a Beijing native with strong ties to his homeland, and a leading advocate of music from across Asia. He has conducted most of the top orchestras in China, as well as orchestras across North America. Read More × Jindong Cai Conductor Jindong Cai is the director of the US-China Music Institute and professor of music and arts at Bard College. He is also an associate conductor of The Orchestra Now (TŌN). Prior to joining Bard he was a professor of performance at Stanford University. Over the 30 years of his career in the United States, Cai has established himself as an active and dynamic conductor, scholar of Western classical music in China, and leading advocate of music from across Asia. Cai started his professional conducting career with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where he held assistant conducting positions and worked closely with Music Director Jesús López-Cobos, Conductor Keith Lockhart, and Cincinnati Pops Conductor Erich Kunzel. He has worked with numerous orchestras throughout North America and Asia. Cai maintains strong ties to his homeland and has conducted most of the top orchestras in China. He has served as the principal guest conductor of the China Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra since 2012. In 2015, he led the Shenzhen Symphony on its first tour to the American West Coast, performing in Palo Alto, San Jose, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The concerts included collaboration with the San Francisco Opera on the premiere of a scene from Bright Sheng’s much anticipated new opera, Dream of the Red Chamber. Cai is a three-time recipient of the ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. He has recorded for the Centaur, Innova, and Vienna Modern Masters labels. He has close relationships with many Chinese composers and has premiered or performed new works by Tan Dun, Zhou Long, Chen Yi, Bright Sheng, Ye Xiaogang, and Wang Xilin, among others. In recent years, a number of professional orchestras have approached him to create special programs of works by Chinese and other Asian composers, including the Celebration of Asia” concert with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2016. Cai has received much critical acclaim for his opera performances. In 1992, his operatic conducting debut took place at Lincoln Center’s Mozart Bicentennial Festival in New York, when he appeared as a last-minute substitute for his mentor Gerhard Samuel in the world premiere of a new production of Mozart’s Zaide. The New York Times described the performance as one of the more compelling theatrical experiences so far offered in the festival.” Cai serves as the principal guest conductor of the Mongolia State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet in Ulaan Baatar. Since 2011, he has visited Mongolia a dozen times to conduct opera and ballet performances, and led the theater’s historical first tour to China in 2013. Cai joined the Stanford University faculty in 2004 as director of orchestral studies and conducted the Stanford Symphony Orchestra for 11 years. He led the Stanford Symphony Orchestra on three international tours—to Australia and New Zealand in 2005; China in 2008, as part of the Beijing Olympic Cultural Festival; and Europe in 2013. In 2013, Cai launched The Beethoven Project,” for which the Stanford Symphony Orchestra performed all nine Beethoven symphonies and all five of the composer’s piano concerti—featuring Van Cliburn Gold Medal–winning pianist and Stanford alumnus Jon Nakamatsu—in one season. Cai is also the founder of the Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival. Over its 11-year history, the festival—which is dedicated to promoting an appreciation of music in contemporary Asia through an annual series of concerts and academic activities—has become one of the most important platforms for the performance of Asian music in the United States. As a scholar and expert on music in contemporary China and Asia, Cai is frequently interviewed by news media around the world, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and NPR. Together with his wife Sheila Melvin, Cai has coauthored several New York Times articles on the performing arts in China and the book Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese. Their latest book, Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People’s Republic, was published by Penguin in September 2015. Born in Beijing, Cai received his early musical training in China, where he learned to play violin and piano. He came to the United States for his graduate studies at the New England Conservatory and the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. In 1989, he was selected to study with famed conductor Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Music Center, and won the Conducting Fellowship Award at the Aspen Music Festival in 1990 and 1992. Personnel Administration ​​​​​ Jindong Cai , Director, US-China Music Institute; Co-Director, Chinese Music Development Initiative Yu Hongme i, Co-Director, Chinese Music Development Initiative Wu Man, Artistic Adviser Kathryn Wright , Managing Director Hsiao-Fang Lin , Director of Music Programming Artistic Council Xavier Bouvier Chen Yi Han Mei Marianne Jacobsen Martha Liao Robert Martin Wu Man Ye Xiaogang Yu Long Zhang Xian Zhou Long Faculty Yu Hongmei (erhu) Read More × Yu Hongmei (erhu) A graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), Yu Hongmei is one of the most brilliant erhu virtuosos as well as the most influential erhu educator in contemporary China. She currently serves as the Dean of the Chinese Music Department in CCOM, and is the designated guest erhu soloist for the China National Traditional Orchestra. Yu Hongmei maintains an active solo career in erhu performing. She has toured Europe, America, Africa, and many regions in Asia, and has successfully held hundreds of recitals in the United States, France, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and mainland China. Her album String Glamour won the Best Traditional World Music award by Indie Music in the United States. She was the first Chinese...