Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong are close friends and even partners.
After the concert, an artist meeting with Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong was held. The two artists talked about their friendship in the music world. Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong met in Moscow in the 1960s. The two were not only close friends in music, but also partners who achieved mutual success in each other's careers.
A pair of old friends, two legendary lives. At the meeting between the two artists, Zheng Xiaoying and Yin Chengzong chatted happily, from their joint witness to the rebirth of New China after the war, to their joint experiences of studying in Moscow, to the "Yellow River" piano concerto By chance, they weave a dreamy musical journey in Xiamen, a beautiful southern city of Ludao... Perhaps their most fundamental similarity is that they both have perseverance and courage to overcome all difficulties. Only then did they understand and appreciate each other.
Teacher Zheng Xiaoying’s early experience introduction:
Zheng Xiaoying was fond of music since she was a child. After being admitted to Peking Union Medical College in 1947, she studied in the Biology Department of Jinling Women’s University and majored in the Music Department. piano. In 1949, he worked in the cultural troupes of Zhongyuan University (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) in Kaifeng and Wuhan. In 1952, he was recommended to the Central Conservatory of Music to study composition.
In February 1955, the chorus of the Central Song and Dance Troupe specially invited chorus conductor Dumashev from the Soviet Union for guidance. At that time, Sino-Soviet relations were in the honeymoon period, and enthusiastic Soviet experts offered to hold a conducting training class to help China cultivate choral conducting talents. Among the 25 conductor class students selected from all over the country, there is only one woman, Zheng Xiaoying.
In the summer of 1956, Zheng Xiaoying ended her studies in the conducting class and returned to the Central Conservatory of Music. In this year, the first professional conducting department in New China, the Conducting Department of the Central Conservatory of Music, was established. The college made an exception and allowed her to continue completing her studies in the Composition Department while also serving as a part-time teacher in the Conducting Department and serving as a choir member of the school. and conductor of the Red Scarf Orchestra.