Qianci Liu 🇺🇸 USA

CELLIST

Qianci Liu earned her master’s degree in cello performance from Manhattan School of Music under Prof. Marion Feldman and her bachelor's degree under Prof. Jiuhe Chen from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She has 15-year experience in performing arts industry as a performer, instructor, composer, recording artist, and concert producer. She is the Executive Director of Paulus Hook Music Foundation, New York Big Apple Music Festival and New York International Symphony Orchestra.

Qianci has been a cellist at the Shanghai Opera House Orchestra. She took the role of the principal cellist in Broadway Musical The Lion King Shanghai Tour in 2005, and performed as a soloist for the Shanghai Bund Lights Show Walking on the Bund. Qianci participated in many recording projects including Global Music Award winning album On and Between composed by Zhen Chen, and soundtrack Wait for Me composed by Shanghai-based composer Wei Luo for China Central Television (CCTV) TV series. Her other major commercial albums release include A Cellist in the Shaoxing Road, Xian Qin, Little Reunion, and Pray for the World. Most recently, Qianci composed for a music animation Lily, to Mom, and a piece for Cello and Jazz Band Candy.

On October 15th, 2023, Qianci made her “Wandering Melody” Carnegie Zankel Hall Debut Concert with the New York International Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Elias Miller.