Dakang Li

    Currently serving as senior professor of film and television arts at the Communication University of China, sound engineer Li Dakang is among China’s most respected veterans of the media arts as well as an esteemed educator and venerated mentor for young professionals.

    Li began his work in the recording industry in 1976. Working first for the China Recording Association and later, accepted to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute of Recording Arts professional development program, Li became a pioneer in China’s nascent stereo and surround technologies and would soon become director of Recording Technologies for the China Recording Corporation.

    With more than 30 years experience in the recording industry, Li is highly esteemed for his serious and meticulous work ethic, his breadth of knowledge of the latest technologies and his wealth of practical experience in working with a wide variety of musical styles.

    Li has received numerous professional and international accolades for his work in television, theater, film and the concert hall, and is the senior sound engineering consultant for popular broach of the Spring Festival Gala concert – the world’s most widely viewed television program.