Department of Music: Wang Kaiping

Wang Kaiping (Domenico Veron), a famous violinist and violist, a doctor from St Petersburg National Conservatory of Music, a professor of School of Arts and Communication, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), a discipline pace-setter of Department of Music and master supervisor, a discipline backbone talent of “CUG Scholars”, a Chutian scholar of “Chutian Scholars” Program in Hubei Province, a star standard artist of American P. Attractions Artists Agency, a signed music artist of Universal Music Group, a visiting professor of The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music, a visiting professor of Conservatorio Giuseppe Nicolini di Piacenza, winner of the key project of “One-hundred Talents Program” of Hubei Stagecraft  Talents Cultivation Project, and a distinguished expert of Jinchu Famous Teachers.  

As a famous violinist and violist active in the international music cycle, Wang Kaiping spreads his footmarks in the cities in America, Russia, Spain, Italy, Malta, Germany, Latvia, France, Japan, Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Serbia and China.  

Wang Kaiping had been invited to participate in music festivals and large-scale music events around the world. As the first Chinese violinist to visit the Republic of Georgia in history, Wang Kaiping led the solo in the Chinese Violin Concerto “Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai” and Paganini's “Viola and Orchestra Sonata” with the concerto of the Tbilisi State Opera Symphony Orchestra, which was widely praised overseas. Xinhua published a headline report with the title “The World’s Symphony and China’s Soloist”. In the Second Art Exhibition between Russia and China held at Smolny Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, he won the first-class gold award and received a commendation from the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in St. Petersburg.

As an invited artist, he attended the 2014 Joint Concert of Chinese and American Art Elites in New York, USA.

In collaboration with the Italian pianist Enrica Pellegrini, he recorded the complete Brahms Violin and Piano Sonatas for the Venice Classical Music Channel in the famous San. Giacomo Church in Italy, simulcast online for Europe.

In collaboration with the famous Lithuanian pianist Ulysses Alexey Nanches, he held the 2015 World Tour Concert of Grinka-Schubert-Brahms Viola Sonatas Complete Works.

At the famous 2016 Shanghai Music Festival in Asia, he was invited to give a special lecture and concert with the national treasure violin (Del Gesu Guarneri 1734) of the Italian Cremona Museum, and it was a great success.

Within one week, he performed 3 violin-viola solo concerts in Carnegie Hall, New York, USA and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow, Russia which are the highest music halls in the East and West world.

In 2017, Keping Wang's new viola album "Carnegie Story" was recorded and released by SKM Records in New York, USA, with Dan.Gengenbach, the Dead of the Recording Department at the Juilliard School and a renowned producer, as the record producer, and was listed on 31 mainstream music platforms across the United States.

At the 2018 Moscow International Music Festival, Wang Kaiping was awarded the “Most Outstanding Musician Award” by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and appointed as a visiting professor of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

In 2019, he was selected into the “Chutian Scholars Program” of Hubei Province and “Guizi Young Scholars” of Central China Normal University, and studied at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; in August of the same year, he served as the executive director of the world-renowned 2020 "Giuseppe Nicolini" International Music Festival in Italy.

In 2020, he signed with Universal Music Group as an international musician. In June of the same year, his new solo violin album "Few as the Morning Star", which was created by the top producer team of Universal, was released worldwide. All works in the album are the first release version in China, which is praised as “a new level of interpretation of rare violin masterpieces” by the industry.

In December 2020, a key project of 2020 Stage Art Talent Training Program of Hubei Province was approved.

In April 2021, he signed a contract as a violinist and viola player with P.Attractions, one of the top ten classical musicians' agencies in the United States, and acted as the sole agent of global concert affairs as a star musician.

In June 2021, he was selected as the special recommended candidate for young top talents and high-level talents program.

In August 2021, he joined the School of Arts and Communication of China University of Geosciences as a full-time professor, serving as the discipline pace-setter and master supervisor of the Department of Music; in September, he was appointed as the discipline backbone of “CUG Scholars”.

In December 2021, the third batch of Hubei Stage Art Talent Training Project was approved.

In February 2022, the new album "Complete Works of Bach Cello Suites - Viola Version" was released by Universal Music Group, which was the first version of this masterpiece recorded and released in China.

In academic research, in the past five years, Wang Kaiping has presided over one project of the Humanities and Social Science Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education, one provincial key project, and three provincial general projects; he has won two awards in the national teaching competitions of the Ministry of Education, and has guided students to win prizes in international important competitions in Europe and the United States seven times; he has regularly held lectures, master classes and concerts at famous higher education institutions at home and abroad, such as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Nicolini di Piacenza, The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music, the Bilbao-Leon Conservatory of Music in Spain, the Vilnius National Conservatory of Music in Lithuania, the Burlington Arts Academy in Canada, and Peking University. He is also a permanent judge of the Giuseppe Nicolini International Music Competition in Italy, the Kranolsk International Violin Competition in Russia, the Malta International Music Competition, and the International Music Competition of The Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music, and other world-renowned events

In the field of musical instrument archaeology, he is invited and serves as the special chief appraiser of the ancient stringed instrument department at Shanghai Baojiang Auction. As a specially invited appraiser, he has presided over the appraisal test for the foundations of international rare ancient stringed instrument auction institutions such as Tarisio in New York, Brompton in London and Skinner in Boston. In 2019, as the youngest appraiser in the industry, he joined the international group of global Sotheby's appraisal experts. During 2016-2021, he undertook and completed 22 antique violin identification projects among 9 Italian schools of thought. By building a complete wood chronology report and acoustic vibration test procedure through the inherited tree theory platform, they were finally successfully included in the Cozio, which were worth about $14 million.

Wang Kaiping owns and regularly uses three of the world's finest and rarest violins, which are the 1590 Celoramo & Antonio Amati, the 1685 Andres & Giuseppe Guarneri, and the 1750 Niccolò Galliano.

Main research fields: violin performance, viola performance, musical instrument archaeology

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