qiao jia

chinese percussion

When she was eleven years old Qiao Jia passed the audition to be a percussion student at The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Years later she graduated and became a classical Chinese percussion teacher at the same institution, which she still holds today. She has devoted herself to the performance of contemporary music written for her by Asian and western composers. Her knowledge of both traditions and her enthusiasm for new challenges enables her to perform different aesthetics of today’s music with formidable ease, accuracy and passion. She is considered one of the best Asian percussionists of contemporary music. In September 2008, Qiao realized a long tour in Scandinavia, closing it with a concert at the New Opera House in Copenhagen. In this tour she world-premiered three pieces that the audience greatly acclaimed and led to a huge success of this tour. In the summer of 2017 she participated as a faculty member in the US-China Music Institute Summer Academy and joined the USCMI faculty in 2022.

乔佳

中国民族打击乐教授

乔佳11岁考入北京中央音乐学院学习打击乐。几年后，她从中央音乐学院毕业，并留校任教古典打击乐至今。她长期致力于演奏由亚洲与西方作曲家为其创作的当代音乐作品。乔佳对中西音乐传统的深入理解与对挑战的热情，使她能以极高的技巧、精准与激情诠释当代音乐的多样美学，被誉为亚洲最出色的当代打击乐演奏家之一。

2008年9月，乔佳在斯堪的纳维亚进行了巡演，并在哥本哈根新歌剧院举办了压轴音乐会。此次巡演中，她世界首演了三部新作，获得观众热烈反响，并取得巨大成功。2017年夏天，她以教师身份参与了“美中音乐研习院夏季项目巴德青少年中乐团”，并于2022年正式加入巴德美中音乐研习院教师团队。