Hong Xia is a National First Class Conductor in China and permanent conductor of the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater.

Hong is a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, a trustee of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society, and the vice-president of the Conducting Major Committee at the China Nationalities Orchestra Society. After graduating from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in 1982, she studied conducting under Wu Lingfen and Li Huade at the Department of Conducting at Central Conservatory of Music. She served as permanent conductor of the Heilongjiang Province Song and Dance Theater Symphony Orchestra and Chinese Orchestra, and as conducting professor and master’s student advisor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Currently, she is the permanent guest conductor of the Changchun Film Studio Orchestra, the guest conductor of the Communication University of China Symphony Orchestra, and the guest chief conductor of the Chinese Chime Bells Orchestra from Hubei.

Hong has collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Central Policy Song and Dance Ensemble Symphony Orchestra, China National Opera House Symphony Orchestra, Changchun Film Studio Orchestra, Heilongjiang Province Song and Dance Theater Symphony Orchestra and Chinese Orchestra, Guangdong Chinese Orchestra, Liaoning Chinese Orchestra, China Traditional Orchestra Zhejiang, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, Chinese Chime Bells Orchestra from Hubei, China Youth Chinese Orchestra, China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, Kaohsiung Chinese Orchestra, and Macao Chinese Orchestra. She has travelled abroad multiple times to serve as an international judge for the Chinese Music Competition.

Hong Xia has conducted multiple large-scale concerts in many Chinese mainland cities as well as in Taiwan and Macao. She collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Central Policy Song and Dance Ensemble Symphony Orchestra on the “Chinese Music Classics of the 20th Century Concert”. She served as the conductor for the opening of the Fifth Changchun International Film Festival. She conducted and performed in the Shenyang Conservatory of Music’s original large-scale oratorio “Zhe Bu Zhu De Qing Shan” (Green Peak can't be covered). She conducted several works by the Chinese Traditional Orchestra of China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, including “Sui Yue Ru Ge” (Years as songs), “Si Da Ming Zhu” (Four Masterpieces) and “Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye” (Moon Night over the River of Spring). Moreover, she conducted the large-scale opera „Yuan Ye” (Savage Land) by the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, which was performed more than fifty times in Beijing and across China.

In 2008, Hong Xia conducted the final concert of the Festival for “Works by International Female Composers”. As part of the first “China Orchestra Festival” organized by the National Center for the Performing Arts, she conducted the concert “The Flowers Are Still So Red – national and international Film Music of Changchun Film Studio”. At the „Chunhua Qiushi – Spring Flower Autumn Fruits” Festival for Art Schools organized by the National Center for the Performing Arts, she conducted the concert “Hua Cai Jin Qiu” (Colorful Autumn) with the Shenyang Conservatory of Music Youth Chinese Orchestra and Chinese Folk Choir. She conducted the Chinese Traditional Orchestra of China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater during the “National Traditional Music Concert”.

In 2007, she conducted the first “Liaoning Northern Chinese Orchestra New Year’s Concert” as well as its next three annual editions. She travelled abroad to Finland and other countries with the Chinese Traditional Orchestra of China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater. She conducted the traditional music concert “The World is Beautiful Because of You” by the Guangdong Chinese Orchestra, the “Hubei Chinese Chime Bells Orchestra Concert”, and the New Year’s Concert at the Sydney Town Hall in Australia.

In 2010, she conducted the large-scale traditional symphonic chorus “Zhuang Zu Shi Qing” (Poetic Sentiments of the Zhuang People) by the Chinese Traditional Orchestra of China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater which premiered in Beijing. In 2013, she served as conductor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra concert “Song Chang Jing Dian“(Singing the Classics) and for the “Works by Liu Wenjin Concert” organized by the Central Conservatory of Music during the “Fourth Wind Instruments Art Week”. Hong has conducted many concerts of individual vocalists, performers and composers. She conducted the “Works by Liu Xijin Concert” organized by the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in June 2006, the Hong Kong Newtune Chinese Orchestra in March 2014 and the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra.

Hong Xia is known for her mature, rigorous and expressive style that has a lot of character. Passionate but not over-the-top, detailed but not restrained, she is able to move with ease between Chinese and foreign, classical and modern, traditional and symphonic works.

Zhang Lie is a member of Chinese Musicians Association and Executive Director of China Nationalities Orchestra Society, Vice President of China Conductor Committee and also a “National Class One Conductor”. In August 2016, he was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Conductors of China Nationalities Orchestra in Xin Yi Cup.

Zhang Lie is the permanent conductor of China Radio and Film Symphony Orchestra and of the China Radio National Orchestra, he is also the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Guangdong National Orchestra. He was invited as Art Director and Guest Conductor to Central Conservatory of Music, Hong Kong Traditional Orchestra, Singapore-Chinese Orchestra, Taipei Municipal Traditional Orchestra and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, amongst others. Zhang Lie graduated from the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in 1984, and studied further in the Conducting Department of Chinese Central Conservatory of Music. In Germany he attended the German Conductor Master Class under the guidance of Professor Baum.

Zhang Lie visited a dozen counties in Europe, in Asia and the United States as well as working in the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. He also composes music and created almost a hundred works, such as Orchestral, Ballet, Film Music, National Orchestra, Concerto and Vocal Music, for which he obtained several awards. His Percussion Concerto Random Thoughts of Guan Mountain became the main repertoire of some Chinese music orchestras in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tai Wan and mainland. His major works in recent years include the Symphonic Dancing Music A Song of the High Wind and A Song of Unending Sorrow; the Film Music Dumb Girl and Sour Jujube Slope; NationalOrchestra Let Fly, Fantasy Xiao Ba Lang, Combined Percussion The Yellow River Trackers , Women General of Yang Family and so on. Among these works, the Fantasia Xiao Ba lang won the first prize in national competition while The Yellow River Trackers won the golden price of the national competition.

Zhang Lie has a clear and meticulous conducting style, and full of passion. He is good at grasp the inner soul of the music and show it in a innovated way.

As a British critic says, Zhang Lie has a deep understanding of the Chinese traditional instruments and explains music in his own way. He is the soul of the concert, he can balances the music and the feeling of the audiences. He can lead the audiences in to a world of rich and varied feeling.