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About Jin Xiang
- Jin Xiang (20 April 1935 – 23 December 2015) was a Chinese composer and conductor.
- He studied composition at the China Central Conservatory under Chen Peixun.
- In 1959 he received his Bachelor of Arts in Composition.
- Soon after, he was labelled a rightist and sent to work in Tibet leading a folk music local ensemble, and then on to Ürümqi in Xinjiang for twenty years doing farm labor.
- After the Cultural Revolution he returned to Beijing and was conductor and composer in residence of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra from 1979–1984.
- Jin Xiang came to the United States in 1988 and was a visiting scholar at the Juilliard School in 1998 and the University of Washington and the composer-in-residence at the Washington National Opera.
- From 1994-1995 he was the Art Director of the China Performing Administration Centre of the Ministry of Culture.
- In 1996, he founded and was the president of the East-West Music Exchange Association, a non-profit that promoted the exchange of eastern and western music.He died on 23 December 2015, aged 80.
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