Jiang Ying graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2010 with a master’s degree. She was appointed composer-in-residence of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and she was subsequently invited in 2013 to take up the same position with the China National Orchestra. Her representative works include Silk Road, Dragon Totem, Taiji, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains Capriccioso, Impressions of Chinese Music. Her works have also won numerous prizes in domestic and international competitions and have been performed in many different countries and regions. In 2013, she collaborated with renowned director Wang Chao Ge to compose the music for the large-scale theatre work Impressions of Chinese Music, which won her the Young Composer Award by the Ministry of Culture.