Dai Dingcheng

Professor, PhD in Composition Theory, and doctoral supervisor. His main research field is early European polyphonic music; since taking up his post in Macao in 2003, he has also devoted attention to the study of Macao's urban music. He is currently a full-time Professor at City University of Macau, Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Musicology, and Head of the Macau Urban Music Culture Research Center. He concurrently serves as Council Member of the Chinese Musicians Association; Review Committee Member of the China National Arts Fund; Academic Committee Member of the National Research Base for Primary and Secondary School Arts Textbooks at Shanghai Conservatory of Music; Doctoral Supervisor at South China Normal University and Academic Adviser of its Arts Talent Base; Guest Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, the China Conservatory of Music, the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, and other higher education institutions; Member of the Expert Committee on Culture and Creativity of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area; and Honorary President of more than a dozen music organizations, including the Macao Band Directors Association, the Macau Urban Music Research Association, and the Macao Alumni Association of the Central Conservatory of Music. His previous positions include Visiting Professor at Newcastle University (UK); Overseas Academic Adviser for the music discipline at Hong Kong Baptist University; Founding Dean of the Music College of Shanghai Normal University; Professor at Macao Polytechnic University; Cultural Advisory Committee Member of the Macao SAR Government; Vice-President of the Shanghai Musicians Association; Director of the Theory Committee of the Shanghai Musicians Association; Council Member of the International Federation for Choral Music; Council Member of the Asia-Pacific Society for Ethnomusicology; and Deputy Director of the Theory and Composition Committee of Chinese Higher Education Institutions.

Dai Dingcheng was born in Shanghai and studied music from an early age. He completed his Bachelor's degree in music in Shanghai (with composition under Associate Professor Chen Songling) and undertook further training as a teaching assistant (studying with Professors Chen Mingzhi, Lin Hua, Mao Yurun, and Yang Liqing). He later pursued advanced studies at Shizuoka University, Japan, under Professor Shizunao Sugai, and then earned his doctorate in the Composition Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music under Professor Sang Tong — the department's first doctoral graduate. His published monographs include Concepts and Forms of Early European Harmony (Shanghai, 2000, 2001); Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation (Anhui, 1991, 2001, 2004); Music Performance in Macao (Macao, 2005); Music Education in Macao (Macao, 2005); Music Composition in Macao (Macao, 2007); Choral Classics (Beijing, 2008); Catholic Music in Macao in the Twentieth Century: Composers and Works in a Unique Historical Context (Macao; Chinese edition 2013, revised edition 2015, English edition 2015); MUSICA CATOLICA EM MACAU NO SECULO XX (Lisbon, 2018); Studies on Sixteenth-Century European Polyphonic Music (Taiwan, 2017); Research on Macao's Urban Music Culture (Shanghai, 2024); Tracing the History of Band Music in Macao (Hong Kong, 2025); and Studies on Macao's Folk and Ritual Music in the Twentieth Century (Hong Kong, 2025). He has published over one hundred papers in Chinese, English, Japanese, and Portuguese in the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, as well as in Japan, Europe, and the Americas, together with more than one hundred other scholarly articles, and has received dozens of awards for music research, composition, and teaching. In recognition of his academic contributions to music culture, he was awarded the "Advanced Returned Overseas Scholar" medal by the Mayor of Shanghai (1997) and the Medal of Cultural Merit by the Chief Executive of the Macao SAR Government (2013).

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Yao Hongwei

PhD in Musicology, Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau; Academic Adviser to the "Macau Urban Music Research Association" of the Macao SAR; and member of the Shanghai Musicians Association.

He has participated in two projects of the Ministry of Culture (serving as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief respectively), and has independently completed one project funded by the Shanghai Municipal Foundation for Young University Teachers and one humanities and social sciences project of Shanghai Normal University. He is the sole author of one book and a contributing author of five others. He has published nearly 20 articles in journals such as Art of Music, Symphony, and China Music Education, and over 40 articles in music newspapers and periodicals. His main research interests are musicology and the analysis of polyphonic musical works.

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Long I Ian

"She is my new musical voice." — Doming Lam, renowned composer

Pianist, music theorist, and music education scholar Dr. Long I Ian is Assistant Professor at City University of Macau, and the first China-born practical examiner and presenter of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM). In her early career, Dr. Long won the "Most Outstanding Performance Award," the "Best Accompanist Award," and the "Special Award for Interpretation" at the Ibla International Music Competition in Italy, as well as the Piano Staff Prize of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2017 she received the "Touching Hearts, Activating Positive Energy" Outstanding Youth Award from the Macao SAR Government.

Dr. Long holds a PhD from the University of Bristol (music education research) and an MPhil in Music from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (music theory research). As a soloist, she has performed with the China National Traditional Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Macao Orchestra, the Macao Chinese Orchestra, the Australian SBS Youth Orchestra, the Macao Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Macao Youth Band, and Symphonic Cordiality HK, giving performances in various cities in China, Japan, and Malaysia. She has presented concerts and broadcasts on RTHK Radio 4, and has filmed music education features for Macao's educational television.

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