Former senior composer of the Composition Office of the General Government Military Orchestra (1987-1997); visiting professor of the Composition Department of the Central Conservatory of Music and the Composition Department of the School of Music of the Capital Normal University; master's degree supervisor and visiting professor of the Composition Department of the School of Music of the Central University for Nationalities;
Famous contemporary Chinese symphonic composer; in the mid-to-late 1980s, his concerts of symphonic works represented a group of high-level budding composers of the Chinese nation who were courageous in expanding and innovating in those years. In recent years, a large number of young composers, such as Tan Dun, Ye Xiaogang, Qu Xiaosong, Huang Anlun, Xu Shuya, Chen Yi, Guo Wenjing, Gan Lin, Jiang Benyi, He Xuntian, etc. have held concerts. He Xuntian held a series of concerts of their individual works, causing a sensation. They are since the founding of the country emerged the largest number of people, the highest level, the most active, the most influential ...... hope of creating a new era of China's modern folk music".
1982-1987 studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Department of Composition and Conducting; 1987-1997 served as the People's Liberation Army General Administration of the Military Band, "Black Light Jazz Orchestra" music director, senior composers of the Mission's composition room, in 1993, served as the "CCTV "In 1993, he was the music director of "9'23 Countdown" in the Olympic Games Gala, and since 2005, he has been the music director of China Education Television (CETV).
In June 1987 by the "Chinese Musicians Association Composition Committee", "music composition editorial department", "Central People's Broadcasting Station Literature Department", "China Radio International Literature and Art Department, China Youth Daily Literature and Art Department, People's Music Editorial Department, China Music Research Institute, and China Music Research Center. China Music Research Institute", "China National Records Corporation" jointly organized the "Individual Symphonic Works Concert" held in Beijing Concert Hall. The main works of the concert: Symphony No.1 "Heaven, Earth, Man", Symphony No.1 for Strings "Change of Nucleus", "Overture for Orchestra", Horn Minor Concerto "Mother". 1987 November, Gan Lin's personal works concert was invited to participate in the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The three concerts were performed by the former China Radio Symphony Orchestra (now the China Philharmonic Orchestra), the former Central Orchestra (now the China Symphony Orchestra) and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra; and were conducted by renowned conductors Chen Xieyang, Hou Runyu, Yuan Fang, and Zhang Guoyong respectively.
1987-1989 studied at the Osaka Conservatory of Music, Japan, Department of Music Engineering, Recording Studies Correspondence Course (English), to obtain the publishing qualification of the recording upgrade certificate (and then the next level is the Master Recording Engineering Certificate). He completed his dissertation, "Arranging Conjecture of Symphonic Orchestra from the Sound Source Acoustic Relative to the Sound" and "The Value Orientation of Relative Stereo Sound of Music in Film and Television Works". 1988, he published an important music dissertation, "The Value Orientation of Modern Music", which aroused the industry's controversy.
Compositions have won the finals of the Fifth Brahms International Choral Festival in Germany, the First Prize for Arrangement at the International Music Festival in Kazakhstan, the Special Prize of the International I.C.D., the Wenhua Prize, and the Lily Award. The "Wenhua Prize", "Lily Prize", "Five-one" Project Prize, "Radio Song Prize", "Golden Candle Prize", and various awards at provincial and municipal levels, He has also won various prizes at the provincial and municipal levels.
He has written a large number of repertoire works and choral works, among which the symphonic chorus of "Westward Harmony" for the 7th anniversary of Macao's return to China in 2006 was praised by Bian Zoushan in "Music Weekly" as "the best of the symphonic chorus in recent years"; his representative a cappella works: "Westward Harmony", "The Best of the Best of the Best of the Best of the Best of the Best of the Best of the Best of the Best of the Best". His most representative a cappella works: "Yearning for the Snowy Land", "Legend of Loulan", "Drunken Heavenly Mountain" (also known as "Mukam's Spring"), "Bird's Paradise" are large-scale a cappella works created in recent years, which have made a number of choral groups obtain the highest awards in important domestic and international competitions. He has been described by choral experts and critics (e.g. Bian Zusan, Yang Hongnian, Lu Zaiyi, Xi Qiming, Wang Shiguang, Tang Jianping, Tian Yubin, Sang Yesong, Yalun, Tian Xiaokong, Dai Yuwu, Chen Zhiyin, Zhang Yuan, etc.) as the best peak composer, and the best composer who combines the two schools of music, namely, the "Field School" and the "Academy School.
In 2003, he composed the large-scale symphonic oratorio "Echoes of the Dongjiang River" for the Shenzhen Municipality (3 parts, 15 movements). Among them, "Dongjiang Water" was said by the local citizens: for a long time, there has been no popular songs like our Hakka folk songs, now we have heard our own contemporary songs, and it is very good and easy to remember, in just 4 months, this song was included in the music teaching materials of local primary and secondary school students.
The theme song "Harmonious Wind Coming East", which was composed in 2006 for the large-scale cultural event "Retracing the Longevity Monk's Journey to the West" in Guangdong Province, has been enthusiastically sung by the Guangzhou public, and has been regarded by Buddhists as a modern "Buddhist song" with a sense of Zen. Nowadays, the song is highly popular and is recognized by the people of Guangzhou as their own urban popular song. As the meaning of the song is not narrowly defined with strong symbols, it has also been included in the music sequence of the 2011 Xi'an World Expo, making it one of the representative works of the "New Chang'an Style".
In 2011, he became the official music director of the Xi'an World Horticultural Expo for half a year, and created the largest and highest-quality 5-movement symphony ever produced in China, "Bashang Imagination", which is a gigantic city symphony masterpiece that will be presented by three 4-barrel symphony orchestras, three full-orchestra national orchestras, a 1,000-person chorus, and a 300-person drum corps, and whose total score is 64 lines. total score of 64 lines.
His modern urban ballads "Purification Ballad" and "Cozy Wisdom Heart" composed during the 2011 Xi'an World Expo, among others. They were extremely well received and sung by local provincial and municipal leaders and national music authority professionals as well as the people of Xi'an and even Shaanxi Province. The urban popular song "Send You a Chang'an" is a collection of history and modernity, and has brought the whole Xi'an into a new spring in music culture and even other cultures. It is sung in the parks of Xi'an, along the Ba River, in the squares, and even by the people who go hiking and exercising, and is especially sung by the fashionable young people and children, and there are various pirated versions of the song all over the place in the KTV, which has attracted the attention of the municipal party committee of Shaanxi Province and has caused scholars to write books about the cultural value of the song "Send You a Chang'an". A scholar wrote a book about the cultural phenomenon of "Send You a Chang'an", and the song has now been incorporated into the music teaching materials for primary and secondary school students in Xi'an. Local provincial TV channels, city channels, provincial newspapers, city newspapers, etc. all competed for reports, interviews, articles, radio and TV stations broadcast the song every day in the morning, midday and evening, almost becoming a spontaneous "red" song behavior of Xi'an citizens and officials.
In 2011, the Ministry of Culture and the China Opera and Dance Theater were selected by many composers and hired as the composer and artistic director of the large-scale symphonic choral poetry drama "Mythical China" project (a national project). The work was premiered on May 31, 2012 and was a huge success.