XIA, FEI-YUN Xia Fei-yun, conductor
The conductor Xia Fei-yun was born in the Tongxiang district
of Zhejiang province of China and demonstrated at an early age considerable
enthusiasm for music and painting. As a small child he made his own dizi and
erhu and using a violin he had made himself was accepted as a student of the
Shanghai Conservatory in 1953, studying the violin there with Wang Renyi, followed
in 1956 by study of Western orchestral conducting under Yang Jiaren. At the
same time he studied Chinese conducting with Wei Zhongle and Hu Dengjao, graduating
in 1961, when he joined the teaching staff of the Conservatory. Xia Fei-yun
has appeared widely in China and in Hong Kong as a guest conductor.
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