盛利 - 上海音樂學院教授 Li Sheng - The Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music

盛利,上海音樂學院中提琴教授,碩士生導師。2002年畢業於上海音樂學院中提琴碩士研究生,2002畢業並留校至今,上海音樂學院青年骨幹教師,上海音樂學院附中駐校四重奏組的創建人和成員之一,曾多次獲中國中提琴比賽優秀教師獎,所教學生多次在國際國內比賽中名列前茅。
Li Sheng, a viola professor and supervising professor for master degree candidates at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2002 with a master of viola degree. Professor Sheng has worked at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a teacher ever since his graduation. He is respected as one of the Conservatory’s most committed young teachers. He is also a co-founder and member of a quartet at the Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He has been awarded several prizes for outstanding supervising teachers in China’s viola competitions, and his students have been ranking high in competitions at home and abroad.
In recent years, Professor Sheng’s students have won a number of prizes in significant international and national competitions, and have gained extensive attention and recognition of the music industry in China and overseas countries. Major news media, including the BBC, Washington Post, Wenhui, Liberation Daily, Youth Daily, Labor Report and Music Weekly, have been scrambling to report on the remarkable prizes. The following is a summarization of the students’ prizes.
First Prize of the Young Concert Artists (YCA) in New York in 2014,
First Prize of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in 2013
Best Trainee Award of the the Verbier Festival in 2013,
First Prize (2012), Second Prize (2006\2009), and Third Prize (2015) of the Johansen International Competition,
First Prize of the Chamber Music Competition by the Royal Conservatory of Music in 2012 Canada.
First Prize of the 62th Washington International String Competition in 2015,
Best Concerto Award (2014),Best Bach Award (2011) of the Primrose International Viola Competition.
First Prize of the Beacon International Music Competition in 2012,
Silver Prize (2013) of the 2th International String Competition in Hong Kong, and
First Prize (2006) of the National Viola Competition in China.
His students received many concert invitations from well-known music halls including the Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center and the John F. Kennedy Arts Center.
In academic studies, Professor Shen published several papers as the first author in influential academic journals at home and abroad, including in People’s Music, Jiaoxiang-Journal of Xi’an Conservatory of Music, People Music and Music Research. He published an academic monograph of about 300,000 characters, Viola Performance and Teaching Exploration. He also compiled a number of textbooks, such as Student’s Chamber Orchestra Training and Campagnoli – 41 Caprices for Solo Viola. Furthermore, he produced a large number of audio and video demonstrations. For example, a viola solo from Professor Mengdong Xu’s Symphonic Fantasy – for Viola and Orchestra by the People’s Music Publishing House and the People’s Music Electronic Audio and Video Publishing House, Viola Chinese Work Collections published by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press, and some pieces in Viola Concerto Collections published by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press.
Professor Sheng’s recent prizes mainly include:
Special Prize of the Luting He Fund Award in 2013,
Third Prize of the Luting He Fund Award in 2012,
Shanghai Outstanding Teacher Award in 2013,
First Prize of the President Award by the Music Middle School Attached to Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2013,
Special Prize of the Shanghai Junyuan Tang Outstanding Teacher Award in 2012, and
Shanghai Xuhui District Education System Horse Award in 2011.
In recent years, Professor Sheng has been invited to give lectures and offer expert courses at world-renowned conservatories of music and festivals. He has been invited to offer specialized courses, give lectures or open expert classes at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Schools of the National University of Singapore, the Bard College Conservatory of Music in the US, China’s Central Conservatory of Music, and Canada’s Mount Royal Conservatory’s Music Bridge. He was also hired by the Curtis Institute of Music as a resident artist (professor) during 2014 and 2015 to offer specialized courses and public master classes to all viola students of the Institute.