Shanghai Conservatory
Xiaochuan Li is one of the most recognized jazz trumpet player and composer in China. Li is the Winner of best jazz album of the 1st CMA music awards; he is also the Winner of Best Instrumental Album and Best Studio-Recording Album of the 1st JZ Awards. He is the only jazz artist awarded by China Central Television, which is to honor the most distinguished woodwind & brass musicians in China on its TV program.
Xiaochuan Li is a leading light on the Chinese jazz scene, proved himself a superb technician and an imaginative improviser, quote by British best-selling jazz magazine “Jazzwise”.
Xiaochuan Li was born into a musically talented family and learned how to play the trumpet as a child. In 1997, he started his professional music career by joining in the band of Chinese Armed Police Force in Beijing. In 2005, he graduated from
Shanghai Conservatory of Music and had majored in classical trumpet performance. Xiaochuan Li was the first Asian musician to receive the Richard Dalrymple Memorial Jazz Trumpet Scholarship. He earned his Master degree in Jazz Studies at University of North Texas in 2011. In the same year, he was named as a finalist in the jazz division of the United States National Trumpet Competition. Soon afterwards, Grammy Award-winning jazz legend Eddie Gomez invited Xiaochuan Li to join his group for his tour in Asia.
Xiaochuan Li has performed worldwide, includes the JZ Festival Shanghai, Hong Kong Jazz World Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, Luxembourg Echternach Festival, Hungarian MUPA Jazz Showcase, Koktebel Jazz Party, Taichung jazz festival, Switzerland Le Petit Globe and Geneva Aubes Festival, Beijing Nine Gates Jazz Festival etc. The musicians who he has worked with including Pat Metheny, Eddie Gomez, Gast Waltzing, Billy Drummond etc. The sound that Xiaochuan Li is searching for in his music is the nicety of balance between western and oriental melodies. His musical talent and imaginative expression of the music makes him one of the most recognized jazz musicians from China to overseas.
Xiaochuan Li teaches jazz trumpet at Shanghai conservatory of music.