Conductor Junping Qian, has just completed his second year as the Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and is a visiting faculty member at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Junping won First Prize at the 2017 Bucharest International Conducting Competition, the 3rd Prize and the Orchestra Prize in 7th Edition of Lovro Matacic Competition in Zagreb. He has graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. His teachers and mentors include Daniel Harding, Sir Roger Norrington, Thomas Søndergård, Christian Ehwald, Hans-Dieter Baum, Mark Stringer, Mark Gibson and Otto Werner Mueller. Since making his European debut in the Verbier Festival in 2012, Junping has conducted concerts with orchestras such as Konzerthausorchester Berlin, State Opera Hungary, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, SODRE Orchestra Montevideo a.o.