Guest Resident Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Sun Peng is a Ph.D candidate and Associate Professor in Conducting at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, appointed under the Talent Introduction Scheme, currently serving as Deputy Head of Ethnic Instrumental Music; Director of the Centre for Teaching and Research in Composition, Arrangement and Chamber Music; Director of the Centre for Teaching and Research (Conducting) in the Department of Composition; and Principal Conductor of the Northern Traditional Orchestra of the Conservatory and the Wuxi Chinese Orchestra. Previously, Sun was the first Resident Conductor of the Macao Chinese Orchestra (2016 – 2019), the first Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Chinese orchestra of the Shanxi Song and Dance Troupe (2012 – 2014) and the first Guest Assistant Conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (2011).
Sun was exposed to music at an early age and successively trained under Professor Sun You and Professor Wen Jialiang. Initiated by Professor Yu Hongxia in conducting, Sun received postgraduate training in Chinese Conducting under Professor Yan Huichang, an educator and also the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor for Life of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and graduated with flying colors. In 2019, he was a government-funded Visiting Scholar at the Department of Symphony and Opera Conducting of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where his supervisor was Professor Stanislav Dyachenko. He completed his attachment with flying colours.
Sun Peng has worked with numerous orchestras, virtuosi and composers both in China and overseas, conducting hundreds of concerts in recent years. In 2011, at the first International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music held by HKCO, Sun Peng was placed first among 55 contestants and received the Prize for ‘Best Interpretation of Works of Hong Kong’. Sun successively conducted the HKCO concert ‘Champions in Concert’ in 2013, ‘Have Dizi, Will Travel’ in 2015 and ‘White Mountains, Black Waters – The Rustic Landscape of Northeastern China’ in 2019 – the first concert with the theme of Northeast China in the history of HKCO.
His other achievements include Gold prize at the 2012 Festival of Traditional Music for Liaoning Arts Colleges, 8 gold and 2 silver awards for his leadership of the Shenyang Conservatory of Music Northern Folk Orchestra, and a Gold prize at a national arts competition for university students.
