Rebecca Ji
CACBC
Executive Director
Rebecca Ji is a Chinese born American citizen. She is professional
performing musician, internationally respected educator and an
expert China performance touring.
Rebecca earned her degree in music in China in 1970; and, for the
next decade, performed professionally as violinist and Chinese Erhu
player for the Peking Opera and the Henan Province Orchestra.
In
1979, she began working in education as a high school music director
and as a performance organizer in Nanjing. Meanwhile, she continued
her performance career as an Erhu player in Nanjing Chinese Music
Ensemble.
In
1989, she moved to the United States where she earned a Master of
Education degree at Bethany Seminary.
Throughout the 1990’s, Rebecca gave educational performances before
nearly 2,000 thousand K-12 schools and universities in throughout
the Midwest, introducing several hundred thousand young people to
the music and cultural traditions of China.
As an
Erhu soloist, she has performed eighteen concerts with Milwaukee
Symphony Orchestra and three concerts with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra.
Rebecca earned the Illinois Art Council Apprenticeship Award in
1996, 1997 and 1998; and, in 1999, she won the coveted Illinois Arts
Council Fellowship Award.
Beginning in 1999, Rebecca was perhaps the first to organize tours
for quality American High School and University bands and orchestras
to perform in China. Her groups have played at virtually all China’s
most prestigious venues and cultural events, including the
China Plum Bloom Festival, China International Music Festival and
the Olympic
International Youth Festival. Currently, she is preparing to take
two of America’s best marching bands to represent US in 2008 Olympic
Festival.
Through her solid performance background in China,
Rebecca has established an extensive network of high-level
performing arts contacts in the government, the private sector and
major venues throughout the country. Many of her fellow performers
are now in performance management or in cultural administration. |
