Famous contemporary flute player, composer, conductor, outstanding expert of the Ministry of Culture, first-class top performer.

He is currently the honorary president of Shandong Song and Dance Theater, the vice president of the Bamboo Flute Society of the Chinese Musicians Association, the president of the Shandong Ethnic Orchestra Society, the director of the Shandong Music Creation Center, the executive director of the Chinese Ethnic Orchestra Society, a professor of Shandong University, and a master tutor. Distinguished professor of Ocean University of China, Qingdao University, Shandong Art Institute, Jinan University and many other universities. Enjoy the special allowance of the State Council and won the Shandong Provincial Government Announcement Award.

In 1959, he participated in the Shandong Music Show "Dizi Solo" and won the first prize, and was selected into the Shandong Yuejin Song and Dance Troupe. Later, he was transferred to the Shandong Provincial Song and Dance Troupe to work as a flute soloist, composer, and conductor. He has successively served as captain, head of the group, and president of Shandong Song and Dance Theater.

He has won the Dizi Solo Award, Composition Award, Conductor Award, Provincial Government General Conference Award, and National Culture Award in 38 music competitions.

He has created and published six albums and more than 400 pieces of instrumental music, which were published by Beijing People's Music Publishing House, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, and Taiwan Publishing House, including records, tapes, video tapes, CDs, VCDs and other distribution forms.

In 1982, he was hired by the Ministry of Culture of the Central Committee as the representative of the Northern School, a famous flute player, and attended the National Folk Music Competition "Special Concert for Famous Players" to give a teacher's performance and a master class lecture. He has visited and performed in 42 countries including Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia, and has been highly praised. He has been invited to give solo concerts and master class lectures in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan many times, and served as art director and judge of international competitions.

In 1987, he was hired as the first batch of national first-class performers, and in 1988, he was hired as a first-class top performer.

In 1992, he was awarded the special post by the State Council, and in 1994, he was awarded the Outstanding Expert of the Ministry of Culture.

In 1995, he was appraised as the top scientific and technological talents in Shandong Province.

In 2002, he was the conductor and artistic director of the Shandong Chinese Orchestra and performed at the Musikverein in Vienna, which was a great success.

Since 2004, he has served as a Distinguished Professor of the School of Art of Shandong University, the Music Director and Permanent Conductor of the Chinese Orchestra of the School of Art of Shandong University.

Qu Xiang's father was obsessed with music, as well as Peking Opera, painting and calligraphy. Qu Xiang's older brother was a good flute player. Influenced by the family environment, Qu Xiang developed a strong interest in music in his childhood. When he was seven years old, his brother began to teach him to play the flute. At the age of eleven, he was able to play some difficult flute pieces such as "Birds in the Shadow" and "Joyful Encounter".

In 1956, the twelve-year-old Qu Xiang participated in the Yantai Music and Dance Festival and won the first prize. In 1959, he was selected to participate in the Shandong Provincial Music and Dance Festival. Due to his outstanding performance, he was awarded as an excellent solo performer, and was absorbed as a flute player of the Shandong Yuejin Song and Dance Troupe. The following year he was transferred to the Shandong Provincial Song and Dance Troupe. In the vast world and the long years, Qu Xiang has always devoted himself to the cause of flute art with firm perseverance and fighting spirit. Full breath, unrestrained bearing, deep emotion, strong local style and distinct spirit of the times are the outstanding features of Quxiang's flute performance art. But this is only a brief summary, just as Bai Juyi said in "The Lychee Map Preface": "It is roughly like a comparison, but it is actually more than that."

Qu Xiang's artistic achievements are not only manifested in performance. In the practice of performance art for many years, he has also devoted himself to the study of composition techniques, and has achieved fruitful results. Qu Xiang's debut novel is "Busy with Fat Transport". Since then, he has successively composed dozens of flute songs with a wide range of themes and different styles, such as "Red Scarf Train to Beijing", "Good News from Qingquan", "Youth Dance" and "Longing". In these pieces, he enthusiastically sang the real life with charismatic artistic crayons, which greatly enriched his performance art.

Qu Xiang's flute songs have been widely distributed throughout the country and overseas through live performances in urban and rural areas, factories, mines, and military units, radio recordings and broadcasts, publishing records, cassette tapes, and music score albums.

In 1979, the People's Music Publishing House published an album of flute solos composed by Qu Xiang, titled "Song of the Yihe River";

In 1985, the agency published the "Selected Dizi Etude" co-edited by him and Comrade Qu Guangyi, who is engaged in the teaching of flute in higher art colleges. This systematic, practical and pedagogical monograph includes ninety etudes of various styles and techniques. In order to exert its effect more powerfully, the agency also selected 30 pieces of music, and asked Qu Xiang and others to perform and record them into cassettes for publication. At the same time, in 1985, the Shanghai branch of China Record Company also recorded and published the cassette "Quxiang Dizi Solo Pieces" with the theme of "Yihe Joyous Song", which included "A Thousand Boats and Thousands of Sails to Sail" " and other sixteen pieces.

Over the years, Qu Xiang’s footprints have not only spread all over the country, but also visited Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Egypt, Tanzania, Zambia, Somalia, the United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Barbados and other countries. . As an ambassador of cultural friendship, he introduced Chinese national music art to the people of the visiting countries, which enhanced cultural exchanges and friendship with the people of various countries; at the same time, he also learned the music art with national characteristics from the artists and people of various countries. After returning to China, he enriched his performance repertoire after careful research and arrangement, and presented music of various national styles to the people of the motherland. He has humbly sought advice from Feng Zicun, a master of bang flute in the north, and Lu Chunling, a famous flute master in the south. He has also studied and played the flute for eight years, further enriching his playing skills. After years of hard work, on the basis of the rude style developed by Jian Guangyi, it has finally integrated Shandong local music elements and flute playing skills, etc., and has become one of the few excellent flutes in the country with extremely individual rules that make it impossible for people to imitate and learn. one of the homes.