Yang worked in the Henan Opera Theater in 1977. After graduating from Shanghai Conservatory became a pipa soloist with the China National Traditional Orchestra in 1986. In 1986 her works for solo Pipa
«Nine Jade Chains» Jiǔ lián yù (composed in 1983) and «Disclosure» (composed in 1984) both won the composition prize at the Shanghai Spring Festival. Yang, herself won the prize for the best solo performance on the pipa. In the same year, her works became part of the teaching program for Concert Pipa Solo performance Majors at Shanghai Music Conservatory and Central Music Conservatory of China. From 1986 to 1998, during performing as pipa soloist with the Orchestra in Beijing, Yang Jing devoted herself increasingly to composition and initiated commissioned works for the first all-female Chinese traditional instrumental quartet,
QMJY. In the late 1990s, the ensemble was invited to perform at festivals in Germany and Hong Kong, marking its emergence on the international stage. In 1996, Yang Jing became the first artist invited by the Beijing Concert Hall to present a pipa solo concert featuring her own compositions. Within the context of a newly market-oriented management system, this innovative concert format was recorded and broadcast live by China Central Television (CCTV). In 1997, she began touring internationally with her own works for solo concert pipa. In the same year, she premiered Minoru Miki’s
Pipa Concerto with Orchestra Asia, and subsequently performed it with the
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in
Japan and
Seoul, Korea. She also gave the premieres of Mo Fan’s
Pipa Concerto “Ballad of the Eternal Sorrow” in Japan and
the United States. She invited the
Norway Musician
Steinar Ofsdal's group for concerts in
Beijing. In 1998 Yang began her collaboration with
Pierre Favre, a
Swiss percussionist. Since 2000, they started a seven years intensive concert activities co-operations, toured in China and Europe, with live CD & DVD recording:
Moments. In 1998, Yang released the album
Village in the Floods, product and premiere at Stifel Theatre St. Louis, MO, USA; Tour with jazz legends
Arnie Lawrence Saxophone and
Max Roach Drum in China and Israel; In 2002, the
Yang Jing & Yui Ensemble won the prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Osaka, Japan. From 2005 she started the annual Music Festival «Hokuto International Music Festival» in Japan, as the international artists' director. From 1998 she started Annual Japan Tour with Minoru Miki's «Asia Silk Road Ensemble», as part of the regular «Asia Ensemble» activities. She also served as a guest professor at music academies across Europe, Asia and United States. In Switzerland, she did music for Pipa & Organ Project with Organist Wolfgang Sieber, CD & DVD «Yang Jing and Wolfgang Sieber: Pipa & Pipes CD
«Dance on a Bridge» She concert toured with the 'Chamber soloists Lucerne' in Europe, China, India, and Japan with premiere of
Daniel Schnyder's Pipa Concerto 'Mozart In China' and with the composer Schnyder himself did the US premiere of this work. In 2006 in Opera «To Die for Love» premiere,
New National Theater Tokyo, Japan, which featured Yang's pipa solo, not only as the musical character, but the Role played on the centre of stage. With the «Swiss Jazz Quintet» appeared her at Shanghai Jazz Festival; She started tours with Swiss Jazz Group 4tett Different Song in China and Switzerland. In 2007, Premiere concerts of her East & West Ensemble In 2009–2010 in
Opera Production «To Die for Love», Heidelberger Opernzelt,
Deutschland In 2010, Her 'Ensemble New Elements' toured with the innovative new composition programs In 2012, her music in Jazz formations, CD ‘No.9’ & CD ‘Steps into the Future’ with 4tett Different Song.In 2014, she directed an eleven-piece jazz ensemble in concert featuring her own Jazz compositions (including 'A letter to Mingus'), with the premiere taking place at the Kultur und Kongresshaus Aarau (KKA),
Switzerland Since settling in the central Swiss Alps, Yang Jing has entered a particularly fertile creative period, developing new concert season projects, each carefully tailored to the specific artistic concept of individual performances. She work integrates Asian and European instruments, multiple spoken languages, and a wide range of musical styles, including classical, Jazz, contemporary music, multimedia forms, and Improvisation, performed in various chamber formations, as well as in choir, solo , and cross disciplinary settings. Rather than focusing on single compositions alone, she often designs entire concert programs as unified artistic narratives. For example
«Erzählungen vom Fluss»,
«Singing Strings – Identity», Quintet
«Der Grosse Wagen» in Fünf Sätzen,
«Unter einem hellen Sternenhimmel», music for
Choirs,
Electro- Multimedia and live acoustic concert
«Klingende Zeit». == Y-Pipa ==