Chen Chuanxi is a professor and advisor of doctoral candidates at the School of Arts, Renmin University of China, member of the China Artists Association, and guest professor at the China Academy of Art. He researched at the University of Kansas.

Born in 1964, writer Gao Honglei is a native of Xintai city, Shandong province. His proses, essays and monographs have been published since the 1990s.

Born in November 1962 in Sichuan province, Fan Wen graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Southwest Normal University (now known as the Southwest University) in Chongqing Municipality in 1985.

Jin Hui, violinist, conductor and educator, now holds the following posts: professor of Orchestral Instruments Department, director of String Music Teaching and Research Office and supervisor of graduate students in China Conservatory of Music (CCOM), as well as standing conductor of Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra.

Zhang Zhao is one of the most active contemporary Chinese composers and a professor at the School of Music of Minzu University of China who has been composing for the German music publisher Schott.

Liu Yuan started to study composition from Professor Guo Zurong in 1975. In 1986, he entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and studied composition under the guidance of Professor Yang Liqing, Zhao Xiaosheng and so on.

Yang Qing, composer and music educator, graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music before teaching in the Composition Department of China Conservatory of Music (CCOM) as vice dean of the Department and a member of the academic committee of CCOM. Now, Yang Qing is the dean of the Music College of Capital Normal University (CNU), an academic committee member of CNU, vice chairman of the Beijing Musicians Association, and a board member of the China Musicians Association, etc.

Tang Jianping is the first Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition in China’s mainland, famous contemporary composer, professor and the head of Composition Department of Central Conservatory of Music.

Ph.D. Li Yi, born in Qufu, Shandong Province in 1957, is an art historian, calligrapher, researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Chinese National Academy of Arts.

Mao Haijian, born in 1954, studied under Professor Chen Xulu in his early years.