UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Tan Dun, is a graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music and received his Doctor of Music degree from Columbia University in the city of New York. He is currently the Dean of Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the Honorary Artistic Director of the China National Symphony Orchestra. With world peace and a green, sustainable environment central to Tan Dun’s core artistic values, his art has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene and has won today’s most prestigious honors including the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement of Italy, the Grammy Award, Oscar/Academy Award, Bach Prize of Germany, the Order des Arts et des Lettres of France, Shostakovich Award of Russia, and Grawemeyer Award of the United States.

As an intellectually and creatively fueled composer from China, Tan Dun has created many internationally influential symphonic works: Buddha Passion; Organic Music Trilogy for Water, Paper and Ceramic Concertos, as well as Percussion Concerto The Tears of Nature; multimedia concerto Nu Shu,The Map; the Internet Symphony Eroica; and opera, The First Emperor, Marco Polo,Tea, Nine Songs, and Water Passion after St. Matthew; as well as Film Music, his Martial Arts Trilogy Crouching Tiger, Hero, the Banquet, plus more than one hundred additional musical compositions that include violin, cello, piano concertos and Chinese traditional music. Tan Dun was invited to create music for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the 2010 Expo, and the 2016 Grand Opening of Shanghai Disney that had a record-breaking 65 million viewers for its international live broadcast. He was invited to become the Music Ambassador for the international celebration of Beethoven 250th anniversary celebration. During the global pandemic in 2020, he composed Prayer and Blessing: 12 Sounds of Wuhan for its victims around the world, the live performance was streamed from Wuhan, Shanghai, and New York, and has received more than 70 million views online around the world.

As a music ambassador for peace and an environmental fighter, Tan Dun has led the world’s most esteemed orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Münchner Philharmoniker, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, among others. Tan Dun has been regarded as one of the “ten most influential Chinese in the world” and has received the title of “The Light of China” cultural figure. Tan Dun currently serves as Honorary Chair of Carnegie Hall’s China Advisory Council, Lifetime Honorary Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Lifetime Honorary Conductor of the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Artistic Director of the China Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has previously served as Creative Chair of the 2014 Philadelphia Orchestra China Tour, Associate Composer/Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony, Artistic Director of the Festival Water Crossing Fire held at the Barbican Centre, and Artistic Director of the Contemporary Music Festival at Tanglewood Music Center.

The Chinese-Australian conductor, Dane Lam, Principal Conductor of China’ s Xi’ an Symphony Orchestra, enjoys a career spanning three continents. With a particularly close relationship with London’ s Opera Holland Park, he is equally at home in the theatre as on the concert platform.

Dane made his debut, aged only eighteen, with the Sydney Symphony at the Sydney Opera House and has since conducted an array of leading international orchestras and opera companies including: the Queensland, Adelaide, Canberra, Dunedin, Kunming, and Shandong Symphony Orchestras, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Het Residentie Orkest, City of London Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, South Bank Sinfonia, Liverpool Philharmonic Ensemble 10/10, RTE Concert Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Juilhard Orchestra and Opera Queensland, Scottish Opera, and Bury Court Opera.

In his other musical home, the ancient city of Xi’ an, the Xi’ an Symphony Orchestra has grown under Dane’ s leadership. Since assuming the post of Principal Conductor in 2014, XSO’ s classical subscription offering has almost doubled while attendance has increased commensurately. He led the very first staged, professional opera in this 3000-year-old city with Tosca in 2015 and Le nozze di Figaro in 2016 while raising the artistic standard and profile of the orchestra to attract such artists as Jose Carreras, Sumi Jo, Midori Goto, and Yundi Li. Dane conducted the XSO at the 2016 CCTV1 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala which was televised live around China and internationally to an audience exceeding one billion views while presiding over a period of financial security for the organisation and forging international partnerships. Moreover, Xi’ an has seen important premieres during Dane’ s tenure including the first Mahler Symphony (Symphony No. 4) in 2016 as well as the city’ s first cycle of Beethoven Symphonies in 2017.

Previously, Dane was Assistant Conductor to the Kurt Masur at the Orchestre National de France; and a Young Artist with Opera Queensland. He is an International Ambassador of the Royal Northern College of Music and currently divides his time between London,Xi’ an, and Brisbane.

Koji Kawamoto was born in Shimane Prefecture of Japan in 1972. As a famous Japanese conductor mainly performing in Europe, Kawamoto has been the music director of Czech Pearson Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2008. He was the chief conductor of Theater Vorpommern and Northeastern German Philharmonic Orchestra from 2001 to 2007.

Since 2009, Kawamoto has become one of the few disciples of Charles Dutiot, the world's top conductor. He constantly participates in the rehearsals and performances of Charles Dutiot all over the world, honing the expertise of his conducting art.

In 1994 Kawamoto won the conductor award of the 10^th Tokyo International Music Competition. His music career started to take off after that and he regularly works with many prestigious orchestras all over Asia, Europe, and America as a guest conductor.

In 2007, Kawamoto won the conductor award of the 59^th Czech Republic Prague Spring International Music Competition.

Kawamoto has worked with many orchestras all over the world, foreign orchestras include Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Thruigen Philharmonic Gotha, Tokio City Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, etc. Chinese orchestras include Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, Fujian Symphony Orchestra, Hebei Symphony Orchestra, Xi'an Symphony Orchestra, and Guiyang Symphony Orchestra.

Cooper Qin, orchestra director and conductor of XSO. He started to play clarinet since his childhood and once studied at Yale University in America and McGill University in Canada.

Cooper Qin won the second prize in the International Chamber Music Competition at the age of 15. By the time he was 22, he made principal clarinet at Qingdao Symphony Orchestra. And in the same year, he started to teach at the Conservatory of Music of Ocean University of China and conduct the school chamber orchestra.

Mr. Qin joined XSO in 2012 to help with the preparation and establishment of the orchestra. He has been the orchestra director of XSO since 2013 and is gradually transforming into the conductor of the orchestra since 2017.

Since becoming the director of XSO, Mr. Qin directed and participated in the planning and implementation of XSO's music season. He not only provided guidance for prompting the orchestra's expertise but also led the orchestra to work with outstanding conductors and artists from here and abroad with such vigor and cohesion, which has been highly praised.

 While constantly boosting XSO's professionalism, Mr. Qin also focuses on promoting chamber music and blazes new trails to launch XSO chamber music concert series. Now Xi'an citizens can feast on exquisite and mellifluous classical music in their home city.

If Xi'an is the place that Mr. Qin initiated his art dream, the well-educated musician wishes to root here and leads XSO to reciprocate the city with art. Mr. Qin will continue to direct XSO to enrich the artistic life of Xi'an with outstanding performances through various art forms and make the city's cultural ecology thrive.

Fabio Ciulla graduated from Conservatorio di Musica “Vincenzo Bellini” di Palemero in 1982 with piano major and 1992 with chorus and chorus conducting major. Whether as a soloist or as part of a chamber ensemble, he has displayed real musicianship.

Fabio Chula is also a composer who attaches great importance to the creation of vocal and instrumental music. In 2017, he was nominated as the chorus conductor in the premiere of Salve o terra, che altèra ne vai composed by Gaetano Donizetti in 1825.

As an orchestra pianist,  Fabio Chula played at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania from 1991 to 1992.

From 1997 to 2003, he was the associate conductor and stage director at Teatro Massimo di Palermo.

From 2002 to 2008, he worked as chorus conductor in operas at Valletta Mansion in Malta.

In 2005, he became the assistant conductor and assistant director at Seoul Arts Center in South Korea.

In 2008, he was invited to be the assistant director at Toledo International Festival in Spain

From 2008 to 2013 and from 2017 to today, he served as the chorus conductor and children's choir conductor at Fondazione Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo.