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A well-known percussionist in Taiwan and worldwide, Ju Tzong Ching has played a significant role in enhancing the wide interest in percussion music and made pioneering efforts in music education in Taiwan over the last two decades.
Upon graduating from the National Taiwan Academy of the Arts (now known as National Taiwan University of Arts), Ju continued his percussion studies at Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Walter Veigl and Richard Hochrainer, former principal percussionist of the Wiener Philharmoniker. He was the first Chinese who received the diploma of Music Performer in percussion in 1982.
Upon returning to Taiwan, he served as the principal percussionist of the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. He later founded Taiwan's first percussion ensemble, the Ju Percussion Group (JPG), in January 1986. In 1992, he established the Ju Percussion Music School, the first domestically developed percussion education system to promote the percussive arts in Taiwan; and in 1993, he organized the Taiwan International Percussion Convention (TIPC), which held every 3 years. The successful events introduced the most avant-garde trend of percussion art in the world to Taiwan. In 1998, he launched Arts Circle, a magazine to further promote percussion music and the arts. He founded the Taipei International Percussion Summer Camp (TIPSC) in 1999, which is intensive opportunity for percussion students to expand their musical visions and enrich their percussion educations.
In 2005, he received his Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the National Taiwan University. For his artistic excellence, he has received numerous honours including the Youth Medal Award, the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award of Taiwan, the National Award for Arts of the National Culture and Arts Foundation. The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) has awarded him the Outstanding Contribution Award four times for his dedication to the percussive arts. In 2009, he was also awarded the Lifetime Education Achievement Award by PAS.
Ju has previously served as the Director of National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra and the Artistic Director of the National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center, the Professor and Chairperson of the Music Department and the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management at the Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) . In 2009, he was the General Director of the Opening/Closing Ceremony for the World Games 2009 Kaohsiung and has been appointed as the National Policy Advisors to the President in 2012.
At present, he is the Chairman, Board of the Directors, National Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center; the President of Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), and the Founder and Artistic Director of Ju Percussion Group.
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