Professor Jialing Tan / China Performing Arts Foundation

Source: AAAB yearbook (2022). Original author: Qiang Li

Gardener and Bole of Chinese Musicians ——Remember Mr. Tan Jialing, founder of China Performing Arts Foundation

Author: Li Qiang

In the Greater Boston area, when the name of teacher Cathy Chan is mentioned, all friends who love art and music are in awe. Mr. Yun Long Zhen, honorary chairman of the Asian-American Association, commented on Mr. Tan Jialing: "She has devoted herself to promoting traditional Chinese culture and art in the United States for decades, cultivating the next generation of inheritors of traditional Chinese music and traditional Chinese painting, and has cultivated many outstanding young artists. Gardener, Bole and babysitter." Indeed, Mr. Tan Jialing's selfless support and care for young artists is very touching. Niu Niu (Zhang Shengliang), a piano genius who used to study at the Walnut hill school for the Art, thanked Mr. Tan Jialing at the graduation concert, saying that she is like a mother to the Asian students of the Walnut hill School for the arts. The pianists Li Zhuoyu, and his brother Li Anzhou, Lu Yixuan, and violinists Yu Xiang and Lin Yixin, who are currently well-known young American Musicans, have all received the sincere care and selfless support from Mr. Tan Jialing on the road of their growth. . Mr. Tan Jialing founded the China Performing Arts Foundation in 1989. He has held summer music camps and master classes at the Walnut hill school every year for more than 20 years. The students of the walnut hill are outstanding young students from Asia and the United States. Among them, a large number of them are currently active around the world as an Excellent musician on the stage. The Boston Chinese Musicians Association issued a certificate to Tan Jialing, thanking her for her support for the concert "Dream of the Country - Suite of A Dream of Red Mansions".Tan Jialing is not only keen on music, but also very keen on the art of Chinese painting. In 1962, he began to study Chinese painting, under the tutelage of Shao Youxuan, Zhu Nianci, Liang Danfeng, Sun Shengjia, Jiang Zhaomei and other masters. In 1982, he started to offer Chinese painting courses at the Newton Chinese School. The China Performing Arts Foundation, led by Mr. Tan Jialing, regularly organizes various classical concerts, the Walnut Mountain Music Camp, the Sizhu Chunyin Youth Chinese Instrumental Music Competition, and the National Chinese School Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Competition. Outstanding contribution. Teacher Tan Jialing, who lives in Lincoln Township, Massachusetts, held a personal Chinese painting exhibition in the town's public library in 2019. This is the second personal Chinese painting exhibition in the library in five years. Teacher Tan Jialing's traditional Chinese painting works include vivid flower and bird paintings, as well as landscape paintings full of artistic conception, each of this shows her outstanding artistic skills. From August 7th to August 24th, 2019, the China Performing Arts Foundation held a total of 15 high-level concerts at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC), including an international piano concerto competition. Fifteen free concerts were attended by huge audiences, and several of them were full houses. Audiences include music lovers, music teachers, students and music industry celebrities. They are very happy to be able to enjoy such a high-level series of concerts in such a comfortable concert hall in the convenient city of Boston on a hot summer day. It is reported that for the past 27 years, the China Performing Arts Foundation has held a music summer camp every summer at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, a western suburb of Boston. Mr. Tan Jialing said that because the rent suddenly tripled in 2019, he decided to stop the summer camp and instead held the first summer concert series in NEC. This transformation has been a huge success and has been appreciated and supported by the music industry and the audience. This summer concert series has received a total of 9 very encouraging comments from 5 different music critics, as well as the support of a large audience. Back in July, Boston Music Intelligence, New England's largest classical music magazine, released an introductory report. The Boston Globe also strongly recommends this musical series.Tan Jialing served as the president and chairman of the New England Chinese Professionals Association, the president of the New England Branch of the American Chinese Association, the director of the Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association, and the director of Taipei Xinmin Elementary School. Mr. Tan Jialing actively serves the community. He is currently the director of the New England Art Society, the director of the New England Chinese Professionals Association, the director of the Walnut Hill Art School and other volunteers. He is also a member of the Harvard Music Association.