About
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
-Plato
"I am an out going person. It probably because the way my parents teach me makes me a better person. I always believe that nothing is impossible, unless you never try it. It is all right to fail. I always believe in that “No cross, no crown.” What make people fail, could actually make them stronger. So this becomes my attitude in making music, no matter what happens, and no matter how hard it will be, I will never give up making good music. "
Jinyuer Jiao was born in a music family in 1996. At the age of four, she started to learn the piano. She studied clarinet under the famous clarinet educator and performer Chi Zheng at the age of nine. When she was 12, she admitted to the Xi'an Conservatory of Music attached middle school, and she was a clarinet performance major. Jinyuer performed many solo and ensemble concerts during school. At the age of 14, she won the first price of the first Shaanxi Province Youth Instrumental Competition, and held a personal concert. And when she was 15, she participated in the first pop singer contest of Xi'an Conservatory of Music, as the only high school participant to compete with undergraduates and graduate students of Xi'an Conservatory of Music and won the Best Potential Award. In the same year Jinyuer went to Japan to participate in a clarinet festival, under the direction of Professor Ayako Oshima and Professor Charles Nidich from Juilliard Conservatory of Music.
In 2012, Jinyuer received a full scholarship to study Clarinet at Interlochen Arts Academy, a famous art high school in the United States. She studied under great clarinetists Stanislav Golovin and Alexander Fiterstein. Jinyuer was a principle clarinetist in school’s orchestra, and played in many large-scale musical productions such as Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, and Nutcracker etc. Jinyuer also sang many times on stage. One time, because she sang an original song "Thank you for leaving me" which had a great result, she became the campus's most popular singer, and on behalf of the school to participate in various performances. Upon graduation, with a 3.9 GPA, Jinyuer received the honor of the outstanding student and permanently displayed the photo on the school’s wall of honor.
In 2014, Jinyuer went to the University of Minnesota to study clarinet. During the school she won the first price of the "sonic Minnesota" singing contest, and she was invited to sing on the University of Minnesota New Year's concert. In 2015, with a $20,000 scholarship, Jinyuer came to Berkelee Conservatory of Music. In 2016, she was Invited to Harvard Medical School Spring Festival concert. In 2017, she started to upload my songs to internet and got 200,000 listens within 6 months. Jinyuer also wrote the theme song for a TV drama last year, and the drama will go on the Chinese Central TV channal (CCTV) in the beginning of 2018.
