Zhonghui Dai graduated from International University in San Diego, California, and the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. He studied trumpet performance and conducting from Thomas Stevens, Boyde Hood, Charles Schlueter, Daniel Lewis and Douglas Lowry.
Has performed, taught and adjudicated competitions in the USA, Canada, Hungary, France, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan among others, included the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow – St Petersburg, 2023). The former principal trumpet of the Santa Monica Symphony, the Riverside Philharmonic and the Ventura College Symphony Orchestra; in 1996 the artist was invited to return to China to become the first principal trumpet of the China National Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until 2006. Zhonghui Dai is currently Principal Conductor of the Changsha Symphony Orchestra and a professor and doctoral advisor at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music. He is also the chairman of the Wind Department at the Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao, a professor and doctoral advisor at St Paul University Philippines and an artistic advisor at Mahidol University in Thailand. The artist is an expert advisor at the Chinese Department of Education for confirmation of academic degree standards, the chairman of the Asia region for the World Trumpet Association, the vice-chairman of wind instruments for the Chinese Music Association, the head of the Chinese Trumpet Conference and from 2006 until 2019 was an officer of the International Trumpet Guild.
Professor Dai has had numerous students who have won prizes at international competitions, as well as principal and assistant principal positions in major orchestras in China.
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