Jun Qian

Instructor of Clarinet

E-mail: music@houghton.edu
Phone: 585.567.9400

Dr. Jun Qian is a faculty member at Nazareth College, Houghton College and New York State University at Fredonia since 2005.  He was the principal clarinet of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra for its 2004-05 concert season as well as the faculty member at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China.  He studied at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Baylor University and the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his Master's degree in clarinet and completed his Degree of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature with a full scholarship.  His major teachers include Kenneth Grant, Stanley Hasty, Richard A Shanley and Peng Gu.
          In 1997, he won both first prize for Orchestral Excerpts Competition and third prize for the Solo Competition at the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition, second prize for the Texas Young Artist Competition and the first prize for the Baylor Symphony 1998 Concerto Competition. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2001, performing Weber Clarinet Concerto No.1 with the Asian American International Orchestra. He had solo appearances with the Collegium Musicum Orchestra and Eastman Chamber Orchestra,  and also released his first CD, Premiere Rhapsodie, on the Nanjing Shine Horn label in China in 1999.
          International appearances as principal clarinet include the Eastman Wind Ensemble's tour of Japan and Taiwan in 2000 and 2004, and the North Carolina Festival Orchestra's European tour. He was soloist in 2003 with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, the Xiamen Philharmonic and the Shangyang Opera Orchestra as musical ambassador for the Eastman School of Music. In October 2004, he was invited by the Sony Music Foundation as the featured soloist at the International Performing Arts Festival in Japan. Additional principal appearances include Kent-Blossom Music Festival, National Orchestra Institute and the American Wind Symphony. He appeared recently with the Eastman School's Ying Quartet in Florida, and his recital was broadcast over the National Public Radio affiliate 91.5 FM for the "Live from Hochstein" concert series.  
         His activities in 2006 as a teacher and performer included a clarinet recital at Paris, France, conducting the Houghton Clarinet Choir as part of International Clarinet Choir Festival at Eastman School of Music in October, and giving masterclasses throughout China and Malaysia during the summer. Dr.Qian's video, entitled "Playing the Clarinet", will be also published in September on the Nanjing Shine Horn label in China.  He is also the designer of the new top student-line clarinet, the "Cantabile" clarinet for the late 2007 market.  
          Dr. Qian was a teaching assistant in clarinet and music theory at the Eastman School of Music, and was instructor of clarinet, music theory, Clarinet Choir and assistant conductor for the Youth Symphony Orchestra at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance in Rochester, New York. Since Fall, 2005, he has returned to Hochstein as the clarinet teacher as well as the clarinet section coach of the Eastman Community School New Horizon Band.   
Please visit his personal website at http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~jqian3/ <http://www-pub.naz.edu:9000/~jqian3/>