JIA DA QUN

JIA Daqun, Senior Professor of Composition and Theory at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a distinguished Chinese composer and music theorist, enjoys special government allowances of the State Council of China. He has composed numerous works in various musical styles and has published many articles and books concerning composition and music analysis. His String Quartet（1988）won the 12th IRINO Prize in Japan（1991）and other compositions, such as Rondo, for Clarinet and Piano（1984），The Dragon and Phoenix Totem, for Pipa and Orchestra （1985），Symphony in Two Movements（1986-87）and Symphonic Prelude - Bashu Capriccio（1996）have been awarded prizes in major Chinese national composition competitions. His work Flavor of Bashu, for two violins, piano and percussion（1995）was named Chinese Classic Musical Composition of the Twentieth century by the Chinese government. His article The Counterpoint of the Structures won the second prize in the‘Outstanding achievements in humanities and social science for colleges and universities’category issued by the Ministry of Education（2009） and his book of Poetics of Musical Structure was the third prize-winner in 2013．His Instruction of the Structural Analytics received a silver medal in the Golden Bell Awards for his profound understanding of music theory（2011）. Jia Daqun is currently a composition and theory professor and supervisor of doctoral students at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is also a vice chairman of the theory council of Chinese Musicians Association, administrative vice chairman of Music Analytics of CMA, member of the Academic Council of Institute of musicology at CCOM. His contribution to music theory has been widely recognized and frequently cited in academic researches in recent years.