Rong Chenchu

As an outstanding percussionist spanning classical, contemporary, and jazz music and active on concert stages at home and abroad, Rong Chenchu has been hailed by the American media as “a percussion leader in contemporary music”, "a rare musical pioneer " by composer Tan Dun, and "the pride and future of oriental jazz" by jazz master Jerry Bergonzi.

Rong Chenchu has won numerous awards in the field of Chinese percussion as well as in the field of Western percussion. Since 2008, she has won major awards at home and abroad, including the second place in the Artist Category of the Global Percussion Competition in Greece, the champion of the Singapore Chinese Percussion Competition etc. She has performed with UNESCO, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Lyon Symphony Orchestra, Royal Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra and Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed in major theatres and music festivals in China. She was invited by Tan Dun to perform in his works as a percussion soloist and guest percussionist in various parts of the world. 

Starting from 2012, Rong Chenchu has found her own percussion group and jazz ensembles. By incorporating traditional Chinese music with elements of jazz and modern music, the ensembles aim to bring the beauty of percussion and jazz together, freely combing the East and the West, classical and modern, improvisation and art.

Rong Chenchu is now Percussion Teacher at Shanghai Normal University Conservatory of Music and Graduate Instructor at New England Conservatory of Music.