Feng Tianshi

Feng Tianshi, Chinese bamboo (Dizi) flutist, is a winner of the Gold Prize from the "WenHua" Grand Chinese Instruments Competition organized by the China Ministry of Culture for solo performance and chamber music performance. She is currently a teacher at the Central Conservatory of Music while pursuing her Doctoral degree, studying Dizi under Professor Yuan Feifan. 

Tianshi studied dizi with her grandfather, Mr. Zhiping Wei, at age of 5, then enrolling in the middle school of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 2004. She then went on to the Central Conservatory for her undergrad study in 2010. She was recommended as a graduate student in 2014 due to her academic excellence. She studied under Professor Dai Ya and Yuan Feifan, also the national Dizi master, Wang Cheng. In 2018, she was selected as a member of the newly established assembly, The Central Conservatory of Music Chamber orchestra. In 2022, her first solo album was published. Also in 2022 saw her collaboration with leading conductors and orchestras across China, including the tour with Long Yu and China Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Zhao Lin’s Symphonic Picture: A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, which is co-commissioned by twenty orchestras jointly in China. In 2024 Tianshi Feng played Hao Weiya’s Blooming in the Spring concerto for dizi and orchestra at the Chinese New Year’s Concert of Bard College in both the college and Lincoln Center, New York.
 
She has been featured soloist, touring China with orchestras and famed conductors including Yu Long, Zhang Guoyong, Huang Yi, Huan Jing, Zhang Lu, Zhu Man and Yang Yang. Orchestras she has worked with including China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra, Inner Mongolia Arts Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, Ningbo Symphony Orchestra etc.