The Australian Chinese Music Academy aims to provide professional and authentic Chinese music teaching to students of all skill levels. For the beginners, we will teach you the musical foundations that are so important for effective improvement in the early stages of learning. If you have musical experience already, we will polish your musical ability to a high performance level.
Born in Shanghai, Xue Bing began studying the Erhu, Violin, and Guzheng at a very early age. In 1973, a young Xue Bing was selected to be the principal Erhu soloist, and orchestral Violin player of the Chinese PLA Performance Group (中国人民解放军国防歌舞团). Xue Bing began training Erhu with the renowned music professor Lan Yu Song (蓝玉崧教授)and Guzheng with Professor Qiu Da Chen (邱大成教授) In 1979 Xue Bing was scouted by the PLA Art University in Beijing (中国人民解放军艺术学院). At the PLA University, Xue Bing was a highly regarded music teacher and occupied the position of “first chair” (Erhu) in the Orchestra. Her work continued in Beijing with high profile concerts, arts festivals, international tours, movie recordings, and TV performances.
Xue Bing Chen with Murray Burns at Twilight Studios recording for The Great Wall of Iron, an 8-hour TV series.
Butterfly Lovers concerto with East West Philharmonic Orchestra for Channel 9.
A Trinity in Moonlight: ABC classic FM concert.
The Great Wall of Iron: an 8-hour TV program series.
Station identification breaks for SBS TV logo.
Erhu and guzheng soloist on Olivia Newton-John’s album, Gaia: One Woman’s Journey.
Australian documentaries including “Flowers” and “The Yellow River.”
Erhu and Guzheng music for the action film “The Long Lunch” and Mumbo Jumbo (1998).
Xue Bing supervised the music recording of all Chinese instruments in Sydney for the feature film “Mao’s Last Dancer”. Chris Gordon, the composer of the score who had previously worked with Xue Bing, was adamant that she be involved in the project.
Recently, Xue Bing was an integral part of music production in the movie “The Fence” and the Australian documentary “Red Obsession” which won Best Feature Length Documentary at the 2013 AACTA (Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts) Awards.
In December 2015, Xue Bing recorded at Church St studios for the Chinese Art Exhibition in Canberra at The National Art Gallery.