Haiqiong Deng [High-chee-ong Dung] is a master player of the 21-string Chinese zheng and a veteran practitioner of the 7-string qin. She has given numerous performances and lectures at concert halls, universities, museums, and festivals throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, China, Japan, and Singapore. Her discography ranged from solo, ensemble, concerto, and cross-cultural works. Haiqiong is the featured artist in the chapter on Chinese music in the widely used university textbook World Music: Traditions and Transformations (McGraw-Hill) by Michael B. Bakan.

 

Her many awards include the prestigious 2017 Florida Cultural Heritage Award, the 2013 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the 2012 Master Artist of the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Award, and the winner of the Outstanding Performance Prize at the 1995 Chinese National Zheng Competition in Shanghai. 

 

Haiqiong has studied classical Indian music with master sitarist Nalini Vinayak since 2003. They released an album, Stringing Echoes, featuring the Chinese zheng, Indian sitar, and tabla in classical Indian music for the first time in history in 2014. Haiqiong also serves on the Executive Board of Directors of the Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) in Tallahassee, Florida, to advocate diversity, equity, and inclusivity of art in local communities. 

 

Haiqiong received her Bachelor of Music in Zheng Performance from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (1997), Master of Arts in Arts Administration (2004) and Ethnomusicology (2006), and Ph.D. in Musicology (2020) from the Florida State University.

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 A note on the name:  In Chinese, Hai 海 means "ocean" & Qiong 琼 means "jade." Therefore, the website is named "oceanjademusic."