Wu Xiangyang, a percussionist from Shanghai. Wu Xiangyang started learning percussion and piano from his father at a tender age. He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Li Min Xiong and Xue Bao Lun. He served as the Percussion Sectional Principal at the Shanghai and Jiangxi Song and Dance Theatres. Currently, he is a Singapore Chinese Orchestra percussionist. In 1992 and 1993, he won the second prize at the International Jiangnan Chinese Orchestra Music Competition and the first prize at the Taiwan Southeast Asia University Students’ Composition and Performance categories respectively. He has performed in Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra.