ENSEMBLES 2010

The High School Attached to Xi'an Jiaotong University

Founded in 2008, the Band of the High School Attached to Xi’an Jiaotong University has received a lot of attention from the China National Symphony Orchestra and Xi’an Good Instructor Recital & Arts Centre and became an up-rising star among the high school concert bands. Our band now includes 75 band members. It consists of a combination of brass, woodwind and percussion.

We were honored to have Zhao Jiping (president of the China Musician Association, president of Xi'an Conservatory of Music) and Zhao Baoping (the head of Orchestral Instruments Department in Xi'an Conservatory of Music) as our permanent advisers and to have professor Zhang Guoqiang (Orchestral Instruments Department in Xi'an Conservatory of Music) as our art director and professor Hou jie as our conductor. With the guide of each professor and the great effort of the students, the band has made impressive progress.

We take part in artistic performances in school actively and have outstanding achievements in all kinds of competitions and activities, which bring us unanimous critical acclaim and praise from provincial and municipal experts.
In the future, we will emphasize on study and communication, and improve our performing skills and levels in order to play more beautiful musical notes.

Hou Jie

Conductor

Hou Jie, a Xi’an local in Shaanxi Province, began to study playing the piano under the guidance of Li Wei, the professor of the piano department in Xi’an Conservatory of Music, at an early age. Hou Jie ranked the top in the entrance examination of Xi’an Conservatory of Music in 1992 and was enrolled as a composition major student being taught by the famous Chinese composer Professor Han Lankui.
In 1995, he got the ticket to Central Conservatory of Music as a student with a diploma in both composition and conductor, continuing to explore deeper in both fields under the tutorship of famous Chinese conductor and educator Professor Xu Xin. Later in 1999, he became the conductor for the Department of Vocal and for the youth symphony orchestra.
He graduated in 2000 from Central Conservatory of Music, he held the position in the department of orchestra in Xi’an Conservatory of Music as a standing conductor.
In 2004, he sat for the examination of Berlin Conservatory of Music majoring in Opera and Band Conducting in the Conducting Department, and was instructed by the famous German conductor and educator Professor Hans Dieter Baum. Hou Jie got his diploma in 2009 and graduated successfully.
Now he is the standing conductor for orchestra in Xi’an Conservatory of Music.

Celebration Program

Additional Concerts Program