Juni Yeung
Academia/Research Music Person
Juni L. Yeung, BA (Hons.)(Toronto), courtesy name Xueting, is the founder of the Toronto Guqin Society, and is one of the founding members of the Toronto Hanfu movement in 2006, and has been dedicated to the teaching and linking of the guqin and its players since 2005. She started the guqin through self-study in 2003, receiving a high-profile debut with a Gold medal in the non-Western Plucked Strings category of the Kiwanis Music Festival in February 2005.
After the establishment of UTQA, she visited players of the Fanchuan, Mei’an, and Sichuan schools, particularly receiving instruction by Zeng Chengwei of the Sichuan Music Conservatory in 2009. In the following year, she published Standards of the Guqin under TQS.
Her interests asides from these professions include creative writing and cooking in Huaiyang Chinese and Emilia-Romagna Italian styles.