Li Biao

Li Biao

Li Biao, male, master's degree, Professor of percussion music, national Hans Eisler Conservatory of music, Berlin, Germany, and professor of percussion music, orchestral department, Central Conservatory of music, China. As one of the few full-time Percussion Concert soloists on the world music stage, he is recognized as one of the best contemporary percussion soloists by international public opinion because of his special understanding and unique performance style.

Professor of music

Born in Nanjing, China, Li Biao began to study music at the age of five. As a child, he showed special talent and interest in music. In 1982, he entered the high school attached to Beijing Central Conservatory of music to study percussion instruments. When he graduated in 1988, as the first public percussion student in China, he was selected by the Ministry of culture of China to study with Professor srukiyev at the Tchaikovsky National Conservatory of music in Moscow, the Soviet Union. He graduated with a master's degree in music in Russia. In 1995, he came to Germany with a scholarship from the German national cultural foundation and completed his master's degree under the guidance of Professor sadero of Munich National Conservatory of music.

As a student, he has won many awards in many music competitions, including the silver award in the first international dabrushen percussion competition in 1993 and the grand prize in the international Alma modern music festival in 1995. He is the first Chinese percussion player to win an award in an international music competition.

As a concert soloist, Li Biao plays a wide range of percussion instruments, from percussion works of different periods to percussion concertos. His repertoire includes many percussion works created for him by composers inspired by his performance. Li Biao plays a wide range of percussion instruments, from marimba to Latin, Asian and African percussion instruments. In concerts, he often plays a combination of up to 50 or 60 musical instruments, presenting the audience with a new music space: he has performed solo in many famous music festivals, such as Schleswig hoynstein Music Festival, avian Music Festival, Danube Artem Music Festival, badfreis fofeng Music Festival, Japanese Fuji Mountain Music Festival, galleri Music Festival Warsaw Music Festival, Cologne Music Festival, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, 2002 percussion night, music Viva, Belgium International Percussion Festival, Paris International Percussion Festival, Zagreb modern music festival, etc. in January 2006, as the first foreign percussion musician in history, he was invited by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to work with the percussion group of the group to perform percussion ensemble works under the direction of Simon latt, as an example Soloist, with many orchestras have been successful cooperation and tour, such as: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavaria Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bulgarian National Symphony Orchestra, welzburg Symphony Orchestra, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, German international Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Chamber Orchestra, Japan The Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, London brass Orchestra, China Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, etc. The performance has covered 70 countries and regions.

Under Li Biao's proposal and hosting, three Beijing International percussion music festivals were held in Beijing from 2000 to 2004. The successful Beijing percussion music festival has become the most influential professional event of percussion music in Asia. In order to accelerate the development of percussion music in China, he was invited by the Central Conservatory of music to become a professor of percussion music in 2003. At the same time, Li Biao began to teach at Hans Eisler National Conservatory of music in Berlin in 2003, and was employed as a professor of percussion music by the Conservatory in 2006, becoming the first Chinese percussion musician to serve as a professor in the world's top Conservatory of music.

He has played percussion Concertos in the most influential classical music column "attaching importance to classical music" of German TV station 2 for many times, and recorded percussion solo works for many European TV stations and radio stations. EMI, teldec and tezhiweiler record company have recorded his CDs. At the same time, Li Biao's works in Europe, the United States and Japan Many conservatories give lectures, master class activities, and serve as judges of International Percussion competitions for many times.

In recent years, due to his strong interest in world music, Li Biao established the Li Biao percussion Orchestra in 2005. Members of the orchestra come from all over the world and perform in the world with the theme of world music and self created music.