The MacArthur Fellow Composer/conductor Bright Sheng was born in Shanghai, and moved to New York in l982. He is currently the Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor at University of Michigan.
 

His music ranges from dramatic to lyrical and is strongly influenced by the folk and classical music tradition from Asia. Recently he has been studying and researching the music phenomenon of the Silk Road culture. And he also serves as the Artistic Advisor of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project Inc.
 

Sheng has collaborated with distinguished musicians. His music has been widely performed in the United States, Europe and in Asia. As a conductor and pianist, he has performed with many famous symphonies, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center.

Trey was the first Chinese to win 1st prize at the prestigious 2004 International Antonio Janigro Cello Competition in Croatia in February 2004. He is currently Solo Cellist with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.
 

Since winning major prizes at New York’s Naumburg International Cello Competition, Helsinki’s International Paulo Cello Competition, and the Geneva International Music Competition, Trey has been performing extensively at countless major venues and festivals. He was also one of eight artists presented in the Outstanding Young Chinese Musicians documentary series produced by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK).
 

Considered by the media as “a thinker of classical music,” Trey represents a new generation of artists who symbolize sensitivity, sophistication and intelligence in the practice of their art.

Currently the Gaohu Principal of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, a visiting lecturer of the music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the awardee of Ten Outstanding Young Persons 2004 (Hong Kong). Hsin began learning the erhu from her father at the age of six. At the age of 13, she received the Hong Kong Arts Festival Award. Once she graduated with distinction in 1988, she became a musician of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra by taking the examination for selection. In 1989, she received a scholarship from the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund and went to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing for her further study, leaving with a bachelor’s degree with top honours.
 

Her solo album God of Wind was released under EMI label in 2004 and was praised as the best Hi-Fi album by Audiophile. In 2003, she has founded the Professional Education of Chinese Music Centre to promote Chinese music and education of the genre for young generation.
 

“Her gaohu sounds so rich, her musical touch so demonstrative of a veteran, that it is beyond doubt that she is definitely a cut above the rest.” Hong Kong Economic Journal