Visiting Scholar Gan (Margaret) Fangmeng is a musicologist, theorist and
pianist from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Both her doctoral
dissertation and master's thesis focus on post-tonal theory and the
atonal repertoire. She has also translated and presented papers on the
theoretical writings of major American scholars including Allan Forte,
Robert Morgan, and David Lewin. Ms. Fangmeng studied both piano
performance and musicology at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where
she currently is completing doctoral studies and teaching courses in
academic writing and the history of Western music.
Visiting Scholar Qing Dou is a musicologist and performer,
as well as Dean and Professor of Piano at Weifang University. Qing Dou was the
recipient of "Renowned Teacher's Award" in September 2011 in the
Shandong Provice; it was the first time in history that this prestigious award
was given to a member at The Conservatory of Music at Weifang University. Qing Dou has
published twenty-one articles in different magazines, including People’s Music, Musicology in China and the Art of Music and has written three
books. Her interests involve pedagogy and the evolution of the etude
repertoire.