PAI Alum Junping (Jeffrey) Qian at Curtis Institute

We recently heard from Junping (Jeffrey)Qian, who some of you may remember attended PAI in 2007. Junping is now at Curtis Institute of Music, where he is the associate principle violist of the Curtis Orchestra. Also at Curtis is PAI alumni Lifan Zhu. Junping reports that they both have many fond memories of PAI. In his own words, “One of my best memories of PAI is the first conducting class that I ever took. I still feel that I learned so much from that class----the teacher was awesome! We conducted a mixed ensemble of PAI musicians and practiced conducting a legato pattern in the pool. Such great memories for me!”