Jianan Yan

Jianan Yan is the first Chinese musician to have been awarded a Doctor (PHD) degree by the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He studied under Leonid Kochmar, Stanislav Gashenko, and Benjamin Zander. He currently serves as Principal Conductor of the Kunming International Philharmonic Orchestra, a faculty member at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, and Artistic Advisor to the Hunan Xiangjiang Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also a Visiting Professor at Southern Utah University (USA) and Inner Mongolia Arts University, as well as Principal Guest Conductor of a Russian chamber orchestra.

Jianan Yan has collaborated with numerous renowned opera houses and symphony orchestras in China and abroad, conducting a wide range of classical operatic, symphonic, and choral repertoire. In 2011, he conducted the operas Aleko and The Zaporozhians Beyond the Danube at the Lviv National Opera. In 2025, he conducted Puccini’s Turandot at the State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Komi Republic, Russia. In 2015, he also worked with the Russian Chamber Orchestra, the Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Philharmonic, the Chelyabinsk Philharmonic, the Richter Symphony Orchestra, the Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tomsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Karelia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ryazan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Barnaul Philharmonic, the Belgorod Philharmonic, the Moscow Youth Chamber Orchestra, the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, the Kharkiv Philharmonic, the Chernihiv Philharmonic, the S. V. Rachmaninoff Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Kirovohrad Philharmonic, the Hungarian State Railways Symphony Orchestra, the Málaga Symphony Orchestra (Spain), the Southern Utah Symphony Orchestra (USA), the State Chamber Orchestra “Uzbekistan Soloists”, the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Tianjin Opera and Dance Theatre, the Hunan Symphony Orchestra, the Changsha Symphony Orchestra, and the Changchun Film Studio Orchestra.