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Forren Faculty
Forren has a world-class faculty. The majority comes from The Central Conservatory of Music, who are famous experts, professors and active performers and most importantly, they are nationally and internationally recognized in their fields of expertise and influencing people through their art.
Distinguished composers, scholars, and performers comprise our 60-member faculty; they provide students with an educational environment both demanding and supportive.
Guest Educational Advisors
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President of China Central Conservatory of Music Wang Cizhao
Renowned ErHu artist Min Huifen.
Principal
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Professor Ren Xiuhua, the principal, graduated from Northeastern University, with majors in Language and Culture with great interest in classical music. As one of the famous professors of English in the academic field of China, Ren Xiuhua has been teaching and researching English, cultural, literature and translation for many years. The translations of the classical Chinese philosophical works such as The Book of Poetry, The Book of Change, and The book of Zhuangzi (cooperated with Professor Wang Rongpei) have been recognized by experts and scholars both domestic and abroad. The U.S. government invited her to visit their country as a visiting scholar in the International Visiting Program in 1996. She has published translations such as Isaac Singer and theses such as On the philosophy of Zhuangzi and On the Rhythm of Children Poems. She received the award of Model Teacher of China and the national golden medal of Excellent People’s Teacher.
Educational Directors
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Chai Liang, Internationally recognized violinist as a professor from China Central Conservatory. Chai was born into a musical family in Shenyang. He began learning the piano at the age of five, and the violin at the age of nine. In 1983, he was recommended to receive training in the senior high school section of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, under the tutelage of Wang Zhirong. In 1986, he was admitted without audition to the Conservatory proper, where he was trained by the famous violinist, Lin Yaoji. After graduating in 1990, he went to the United States in 1991 on a full scholarship to study violin at the University of Southern California. One year later, he received a full scholarship to attend the Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with the pre-eminent violin pedagogue, Dorothy DeLay. He was awarded a Master's degree in 1997 from the Julliard School. In 2003, Chai Liang went back to Beijing as a professor of China Central Conservatory.
Fan Tao, a National Class One Conductor in China. He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, reading Composition and Conducting under the famous conductor and pedagogue, Huang Xiaotong. In 1995, he was appointed Resident Conductor of the China Film Symphony Orchestra under the auspices of the China Broadcasting Performing-Arts Troupe. The orchestras and ensembles that Fan has conducted include the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Avanti Chamber Ensemble of Finland, the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra, the Oberlin Symphony Orchestra of the U.S., the Florida State University Chamber Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and orchestras of the Shanghai Opera, the National Ballet of China and the China National Chinese Opera and Dance Drama Company.
Li Lansong, Associate professor in Bassoon from China Central Conservatory. He was admitted to the China Central Conservatory in 1986 under Bassoon professor and scholar Dai Yunhua. In 1990, he became the first-chair Bassoon performer in the China Broadcast Symphony Orchestra. In 2001, he went to Germany to attend Aachen Musik Hochschule with scholarship, under professor Herr.Bohorquez. In 2002 Li made into the European Youth Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded a Master’s degree in 2003 and went back to China as a professor of China Central Conservatory. Li has been successfully holding private concert performances as well as teaching master classes since then.