Zhao Xiaoxia

       Zhao Xiaoxia studied under the tutelage of renowned guqin instructor Professor Li Xiangting. Zhao is currently a guqin instructor at the Central Conservatory of Music, as well as the vice secretary of the China Folk Orchestral Music Society Guqin Committee, adviser to the Macau Guqin Research Society, and was named by the Hong Kong Buddhism culture industry as “Buddhist Music Ambassador”.

Zhao has received first place prizes and educational awards in many domestic and international competitions, including the First CCTV Folk Instrument Television Competition, the Second Macau “Golden Lotus Cup” International Youth Music Competition, the First Asia “Just a Regular Musician” Music Festival, the Chinese Instrumental Music Competition, and many more. As an outstanding young musician, Zhao’s work has been included in The Best of Chinese Music, a large-scale photo album of folk musicians. She has also accepted offers to visit various countries throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, where she has performed solo concerts and participated in academic lectures.

Some of the television programs Zhao has participated in includes CCTV’s Fenghua China Music, The Sound of Music, Children’s Guqin, The Same Song, Beijing TV’s Cultural Broadcasting Daily, Hunan Satellite’s Happy Camp, and many more. Many media outlets have featured her in their reports, describing her as a bridge between traditional and modern music, and the “the new queen of the guqin”.