Yang Jing (composer)

Yang Jing (; born Dec.1963) is a composer based in central Switzerland, a legendary concert pipa soloist and Bandleader. Early life and education Yang was born in Anyang in Henan province, China. According to Yang, she came from an educated family that was regarded with suspicion during the Cultural Revolution. Her mother worked in a hospital, and her father was an army officer. Her grandfather died in prison after being accused of counterrevolution. She started playing the pipa, the Chinese plucked lute, at the age of six. From 1976, at the age of 12, she started performing in an ensemble at the Henan Opera music Theater. From the age of 18, Yang studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and graduated in 1986. In 1997, she went to Japan to study with composer Minoru Miki, as she started to explore contemporary music, and later performed and recorded pipa concertos by Miki with Japanese orchestras. She worked with Japanese traditional instrumental soloists. In 2003, she moved with her family to Switzerland and completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary music Composition and Theory, as well as Jazz music at the Hochschule der Künste Bern 10 years later. Career Yang worked in t