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Zhao Jiazhen

04-1515Guqin and its MusicTraditional MusicChinese National Academy of ArtsBatch 4 (2012)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In 1980 she was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music, where she studied under Wu Jinglue of the Yushan Wu school and received guidance from Wu Wenguang.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Female, Han ethnic group, born in August 1962 in Shanghai. From 1976 she studied the guqin successively with Gong Yi and Zhang Ziqian of the Guangling school. She graduated in 1984 and remained at the conservatory to teach. She has served successively as deputy director of the Guqin Professional Committee of the China Kunqu and Guqin Research Association, vice-president of the China Guqin Association, and a member of the ethnic instrument division of the National Expert Committee on Vocational Skills Appraisal. She planned and initiated the 2006 Beijing International Guqin Music and Culture Week and the concert commemorating the centenary of the birth of the guqin master Wu Jinglue, and she has recorded guqin music and served as guqin artistic adviser for numerous film and television productions. She has taught many students and holds recitals and lecture-demonstrations throughout the year. She has released more than ten solo albums.

Honors & Recognition

She is a representative bearer of guqin art, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Zhao Jiazhen · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Guqin and its Music
Item code
Ⅱ-34
Category
Traditional Music
Region
Chinese National Academy of Arts
Born
1962.08
Batch
Batch 4 (2012)

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