[1] He is professor in composition at the Conservatory of Music at Capital Normal University in Beijing.
From 2005 he taught composition at the School of Music at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand.
This transitional phase between old and new and the productive cultural clash between East and West left traces, that would later be evident in his music.
The Beijing-based musicologist and professor Li Xi’an has referred to Gao Ping as a leading member of the “sixth generation” of Chinese composers.
Works such as Piano Quintet “Mei Lan Zhu Ju” (2009) and The Four Not-Alike for multi-function pianist and Chinese instruments (2012) reflect the appeal of his fusing of Western and Eastern idioms, as well as the expanding interest in his compositions dealing with China and its multiple pasts.