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Luo Jing is currently Zheng Principal of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. She is a zheng recitalist and an honorary director of the Guzheng Professional Committee under the China Nationalities Orchestra Society. She entered the middle school affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1986, where she was under the tutelage of the well-known soloists and teachers He Baoquan and Sun Wenyan. She graduated from the Conservatory cum laude in 1995, one year ahead of the full undergraduate term, and joined the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra as a zheng soloist. She also teaches in the Music Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, The Education University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Luo came first in the Junior Section (Majors) of the ART Cup International Chinese Instruments Competition in 1989, and participated in the ‘Spring of Shanghai’ music festival for four consecutive years since 1993, also winning the Music Performance Award. In 1995, she won a Class Two Award in the Youth Section at the Oriental Cup National Zheng Competition organized by the Ministry of Culture. She gave a zheng solo recital at the Carnegie Hall in New York in 1999. In Spring 2001, she gave a zheng solo recital at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. Luo was the featured soloist in two of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra’s concerts, ‘Luo Jing’s World of Zhengs’ in 2007 and ‘Luo Jing and HKCO II’ in 2012. Luo has been on tour to Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, Taiwan and Macao, covering more than twenty countries and regions.
Luo’s discography includes her first solo album Luo Jing in Concert in 1992, in which she premiered the Fragrance of Jasmine and Song of the Sisters and received popular acclaim. She performed the premiere of many new works for the zheng repertoire, including Sad Memories of Lin’an, Landscapes, The Peony Pavilion and Xi Shi. She has dozens of recording releases to her credit, including Liuyang River,The Ploughing Song, Scenery of Chuan River, YueErGao (‘As the Moon Rises’), Jiang Jun Ling (‘Song of the General’) and Gao Shan Liu Shui (‘High Mountain and Flowing River’), etc.
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