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 Professor Pu-Qi Jiang, (pronounced Poo-Chi Jiang) has enjoyed an active international conducting schedule as well as university level teaching for the past fifteen years. Since 1990, he has conducted more than ten professional orchestras in the United States, China, Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Jordan, Macedonia, and the United Kingdom. He has led university faculty and student ensembles on concert tours in such cities as Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Salzburg, Prague and Vienna.
Maestro Jiang began his career at an early age as both violinist and choirboy in Shanghai. In 1956, he entered the Music Middle School affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music where he majored in violin. He was selected for admission to the conducting department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of 18. His professional career began in 1968 after his graduation from the Conservatory.
After conducting many professional orchestras and ensembles in China for more than eighteen years, Maestro Jiang came to the United States in 1986. Having been awarded full scholarships by the University of Cincinnati and the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, he studied advanced conducting at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) of the University of Cincinnati with Maestro Gerhard Samuel. At CCM, Jiang received his M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Orchestral Conducting. Jiang was named the Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra in 1989. From 1991 to 1992, Professor Jiang worked as the Conducting Assistant to Maestro Jesús López-Cobos, Erich Kunzel and Keith Lockhart at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Prior to his University of Memphis appointment, he was the Music Director and Conductor at Penn State and Ohio University, where he conducted three orchestras and taught Advanced Orchestral Conducting for both graduate and undergraduate students.?
Dr. Jiang’s M.M and D.M.A orchestral conducting programs have attracted talented young conductors from such countries/areas as Australia, Canada, China, Columbia, Germany, Jordan, Korea, Taiwan, and the USA. Some of his students have won the Solti Foundation US Award in 2004 and the fellowship for American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and School in 2005.
Maestro Jiang’s guest conducting duties for coming concert seasons are included jobs as the Music Director for the West–East International Student Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival in Shanghai (May 2007), The covering conductor for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra (three masterworks concerts in Memphis), and the Conductor for the All-Oklahoma Music Educator’s Association Orchestra (Jun. 2008), and many others.
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