Zhan Yongming, a famous flute player and educator, is a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, a director of the Chinese National Orchestra Society, and the deputy head of the National Song and Dance Troupe. He has now moved to Singapore. National first-class performer. He is currently a professor of the Folk Music Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a postgraduate tutor for postgraduate students, a professor of the Nanyang Academy of Arts in Singapore, and the president of the Singapore Dizi Society. He was awarded the title of "Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contribution" by the State Council of China, and enjoys the special allowance of the State Council for life.
Born in Hangzhou in 1957, he studied under Mr. Zhao Songting, a flute master from Zhejiang School since childhood. He graduated from Zhejiang Art School in 1975, and was admitted to the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of Music for further study. Zhan Yongming's flute art won the first place in the national national instrumental music competition in the 1980s (the first place in the flute group). In the past ten years, he has won many awards in international and domestic competitions, and has performed and lectured in more than 20 countries in the world for many times. His representative works include "Listening to the Spring" (won the second prize in the 6th National Music Work Selection), "Broken Bridge", "Song of the Wujiang River", "Spring Dawn on the West Lake", flute concerto "Orchid Flower" and "Long Sorrow", etc. He is the author of such papers and works as "Basic Dizi Course", "Fourteen Lessons of Dizi Basic Course" (Volume 2 and 2), "Appreciation and Teaching of Famous Chinese Bamboo Flute Songs", and "Ten Lectures on Dizi". He has recorded more than ten CDs such as "Joyful Encounter", "New Voices of China", "Spring Dawn of the West Lake" and "Listening to the Spring".
In the 1980s, Zhan Yongming ranked first in the national instrumental solo competition (the first in the flute group) and became famous in the music world. In the past 20 years, he has won many awards in international and domestic music competitions, and has traveled to more than 20 countries and regions around the world. Regional performances and lectures, with footprints throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States, are known as "the magic flute" by people, and are called "the outstanding performers of today" by the "Washington Post".
In 1991, he visited Taiwan as the first outstanding folk music performer from the mainland, and made important contributions to promoting the performance and teaching of flute art on both sides of the strait.
For more than 20 years, Zhan Yongming has cultivated and cultivated a large number of outstanding dizi artistic talents at home and abroad.
In 1988, he was among the first batch of Chinese national first-class performers;
In July 1991, he was awarded the title of "Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions" by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and enjoys special government allowances. In 1997, he taught at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
In 2004, he returned to China to teach at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. His deeds are included in "Who's Who in Chinese Contemporary Literature", "The Dictionary of Chinese Musicians" and "Who's Who in the World".