Wenchen Qin

Wenchen Qin (b. 1966) is a composer and teacher in Beijing, where he is a professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music, and a distinguished professor at the China Conservatory of Music. Qin was born in 1966 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, and became familiar with the folk music of his home while still very young. In 1987 he went to study composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where his tutors included Jian-er Zhu (b. 1922) and Shuya Xu (b.