Junping Qian

A personal career highlight for him was being engaged as Assistant Conductor of the new opera "Marco Polo" at the Guangzhou Opera House in April 2018, where he worked closely with composer Enjott Schneider, director Kaspar Holten, tenor Peter Lodahl, Maestro Muhai Tang, and the Macau Orchestra. He was also proud to be invited to lead the Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra on a tour celebrating the 100th anniversary since the formation of Romania and the end of World War I.

Junping was the First Prize winner of the 2017 Bucharest International Conducting Competition which established his presence throughout Eastern Europe. He won the 3rd Prize and the Orchestra Prize in 7th Edition of Lovro Matacic Competition in Zagreb, Croatia, the 3rd Prize of Hans von Bülow Conducting Competition in 2021 and 3rd Prize of Princess Astrid Conducting Competition in Norway in 2022. He is the 2018 recipient of the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Conducting Scholarship and is supported by the Solti Foundation.

After graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music, he studied conducting with Mark Gibson at the University of Cincinnati, Michael Jinbo of the Pierre Monteux Conducting School, and was the last private student of legendary pedagogue Otto Werner Mueller. He has been mentored by British conductor Daniel Harding since 2014, Sir Roger Norrington since 2019 and Christoph Eschenbach since 2022. He graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin under Professors Christian Ehwald, Hans-Dieter Baum, and Manuel Nawri. His first appearance as a conductor was at the tender age of 10 with his school choir.

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