Bowen Qian

Biography

Bowen Qian is the third-year postgraduate of Shanghai conservatory of Music, and now
is the exchange student in Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
At age of 10, Bowen studied the Double bass with Mr. Long Yu, the principal Double bass of
Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was admitted to the department of orchestra of
Shanghai conservatory of music with the first rank in major, and studied under Prof. Xu Luo.
During the school period, he won the “conservatory scholarship” and the title of "merit
student" for three consecutive times, and was awarded as "outstanding graduate of Shanghai
" in June 2019. In July 2019, Bowen was admitted to the baden baden Carl flesch Akademie
in Germany, studied with Matthew McDonald, who is the Double bass first principal of the
Berlin philharmonic orchestra. He has been supervised by experts such as Janne Saksala,
Double bass first principal of Berlin philharmonic orchestra; Gary Karr and Edgar Meyer the
professor of the Curtis Institute of Music. In 2019, Bowen became a graduate without
aexamination.
In 2019, he won the second prize in the 8th Japan Akiyoshidai international double bass
competition (the first prize was vacant); the first prize in the first string competition of the
Shanghai conservatory of Music, the best Chinese performance award and the excellence
award in the final of the international Galicia Graves double bass competition 2019, Spain.
Bowen Qian has given many solo concerts and chamber concerts. He premiered the
concerto "the distance" for Double bass solo and orchestra with Shanghai Philharmonic
Orchestra as the Double bass solo. He performed the Bottesini Double bass
concerto in b minor with Maestro Daye Lin and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. He
was selected to the talent pool of the collaborative innovation center of Shanghai
conservatory of Music.
Bowen Qian is the principal Double bass in the Shanghai conservatory of music Symphony
Orchestra now. He had as a Double bass principal to join the Asian Youth Orchestra, Seiji
Ozawa music academy orchestra, China YMCG symphony orchestra etc. involved in some
world famous festival performance such as Lucerne Festival, Ravello Festival, young European
classical music festival inBerlin,Merano festival, Japan seiji ozawaMatsumoto festival etc. Past
co-conductors and soloists include Seiji Ozawa, Neeme Jrvi, Matthias Bamert, James Judd,
Guoyong Zhang, Daye Lin, Kensho Watanabe, Vadim Repin, and Noah bendik-balgley.