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Keynote Speaker 1

Yu HuiProfessor, Yunnan University, China


Yu Hui (喻辉) is a distinguished professor and Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Yunnan University, China. He received his MA in Chinese Musicology from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1991, and Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA, in 2000. He has taught at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China, the University of British Columbia in Canada, and Wesleyan University in the USA in the 1990s. Since the 2000s, he has also served as the Dean of the School of Music at the Shenyang Normal University, Dean of the College of Arts at Ningbo University, and Dean of the College of Arts and Design at Yunnan University in China.

He is the author of numerous articles published both in China and the West on topics concerning ethnomusicology, visual ethnomusicology, digital musicology, Chinese Guqin zither traditions, Chinese opera traditions, Asian tuning systems, and ancient Chinese music theory. In addition to being the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook: Music of China (forthcoming) and a contributor to the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed. (2014), he is also the chief editor of three book series, and author, chapter contributor and editor of eight other books from publishers in China and the West, including Routledge Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Zhejiang University Press, and Fudan University Press. He is also the co-president of the Council for Asian Musicology, co-editor of the international music journal Asian Musicology, the vice president and secretary general of the Oriental Music Society of China, and the 12th President of the East Asian Society for Musical Tuning and Temperament. In recent years, he has been invited to be a judge for several international music competitions and to be a member of both national and international academic evaluation committees in China and the West. He is also the chief investigator of a National Significant Project of the China Fund for Social Sciences in Arts, entitled "The Interactive Influences Between Music in China and Overseas", the largest grant ever awarded in music research fields in China.


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