Professor Yuanji Fan has had a most impressive teaching career in China over the past half century. He has been on the faculty of the Shenyang Conservatory of Music for many years, in addition to his more recent appointments as professor at DongBei University and Shandong University in Weihai. During the year s 1998 to 2000, he was in residence as a research scholar at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., researching American music and piano studies. While at Catholic, he organized lectures on Chinese Piano Music and Culture, and began a literary column in the Chinese American Business Journal that successfully continued for eighty weeks. In 1987, Professor Fan was the secretary general for the First National Piano Contest in China. Since that time, he has been a frequent adjudicator at many prestigious competitions in China. In addition, he has published more than one hundred papers, musical reviews and monographs on the art of piano teaching. In addition to his teaching career, Professor Fan has composed many piano works, including The Ansai Waist-Drum, Youth Piano Concerto, Suite (Folk-toys), and Capriccio: Oasis of the Night. He has also released several compact discs, including the Czerny 599 Piano Etudes, Lemon 50 Piano Etudes, and Fourteen Romantic Pieces for Piano. Amongst his students who have achieved national and international recognition are Ding Yang, Wu Lili, Xia Liping, Zhang Xuan, Ren Lecheng, and Ruixi Niu.
