JIANG Kemei is a Chinese huqin player, honourary chief of China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, Chinese first-class performer, Guest Professor of Central Conservatory of Music and Executive Director of China Nationalities Orchestra Society. She enjoys a special allowance granted by the State Council.
After graduating from middle school attached to Shenyang Conservatory of Music and Central Conservatory of Music, JIANG studied with Chinese famous huqin performers, including Professor XU Shilong and Professor LI Heng. She studied huqin musical instruments very systematically, and learned to play the banhu, jinghu, erhu, gaohu and zhonghu, (which all belong to the huqin family).
JIANG lays special emphasis on innovating huqin performance and developing her elegant, exquisite and graceful performance style. She has held personal huqin recitals successfully in Beijing, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Osaka, etc. She held huqin recital in Carnegie Recital Hall in 2008 successfully. She has cooperated with dozens of orchestras, such as the China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Traditional Orchestra, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Macao Chinese Orchestra and Taipei Chinese Orchestra. She also works together with other conductors. She succeeds in premieres of excellent works, including Beijing Impressions, Overlook, Farewell to My Concubine and In that Distant Place.
JIANG has been invited to give huqin recitals of different types in various international art festivals, such as Cannes International Film Festival, Prague Spring International Music Festival, Italy Michelangeli International Music Festival, Belgrade International Arts Festival and Macao International Music Festival and in different famous theatres such as Goldener Saal Wiener Musikvereins, The Kennedy Centre, Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, the United Nations General Assembly Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin and Sydney Opera House. She performed in more than 40 countries. She boasts of a widespread reputation around the globe.
She has participated in different domestic major performances and recordings, such as “CCTV Spring Festival Gala”, “Spring Festival Song and Dance Party”, “Spring Festival Opera Party”, “Spring Festival Gala of Ministry of Culture”, “Cultural Show for the 60th Year Anniversary for the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and Russia”, “Cultural Show for the 30th Anniversary of Normalization of Democratic Relations between China and Japan” and “Gala for Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games 2018.”
She has created such works as Red Peach Blossom and Girl from Mountainous Area. She has published many albums, including Beijing Impressions, Chinese Banhu and Emotional String of Huqin. She also recorded many music programmes for domestic and foreign TV stations, radio stations and record companies. She recorded huqin accompanying music for such films and TV series as Not One Less, The Road Home and Drawing Sword. She also presented numerous TV works that exert influence on national instrumental music circles, among which, Concubine Yu, Spring Dawn and Both Banks of Hanjiang River were conferred with golden award of “the 2nd, the 3rd and 5th National City TV Programmes Contest.”
