BIOGRAPHY
With Shen Yun Since: 2008
Melody Qin won first place in New Tang Dynasty Television’s 2012 International Classical Chinese Dance Competition (adult female division) and won third place in the competition’s junior division in 2010. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Classical Chinese Dance from Fei Tian College after studying classical Chinese dance at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts, both in New York.
Personally Speaking...
Chinese Name: Qin Ge (秦歌).
Born in: Liaoning, China.
Favorite prop: Silk fans.
Favorite tour country: Japan.
Make up takes: 10 min.
Warm-up method: Jump rope for a while, or kick.
Intermission activity: I practice the techniques I have in the first dance in the second half (which are usually quite a few), and play catch with my handkerchief in preparation for that dance later in the second half.
# of stuffed animals in bedroom: 3.
Favorite packing tip: Bring less stuff.
Favorite bus activity: Sleep.
Hardest thing about tour: Days when we have a schedule of load-in, perform, load-out, and drive to the next city.
Favorite ice cream flavor: Coffee.
Favorite birthday dessert: Ice cream cake.
Comfort food: Milk.
Food always in your fridge: Whole milk.
Hobbies: Piano.
Decisive or fickle: Decisive.
Cheese or tofu: Tofu.
Most ridiculous fear: Mice, frogs, and toads.
If granted one wish, it would be…: I don’t think about unrealistic things.
Morning or night person: Morning, I get up early and go to sleep early.
Best season: Winter, because I’m from northeast China.
Most prized possession lost: I don’t lose things.

Angelia Wang
Principal Dancer

Melody Qin
Principal Dancer

Hsiao-Hung Lin
Principal Dancer

Evangeline Zhu
Principal Dancer

Michelle Lian
Principal Dancer

Piotr Huang
Principal Dancer

Jay Huang
Principal Dancer

Luna Yu
Principal Dancer

Kenji Kobayashi
Principal Dancer

Benjamin Lee
Principal Dancer

Albert Yang
Principal Dancer

Carol Huang
Principal Dancer

Victor Li
Principal Dancer

Jaling Chen
Principal Dancer

Elsie Shi
Principal Dancer

William Li
Principal Dancer

Miranda Zhou-Galati
Principal Dancer

Daoyong Zheng
Principal Dancer

Chad Chen
Principal Dancer

Monty Mou
Principal Dancer

Kaidi Wu
Principal Dancer

Jing Xian
Composer

Junyi Tan
Composer

Yungchia Chen
Choreographer

Michelle Ren
Choreographer

Guimin Guan
Tenor

Haolan Geng
Soprano

Tian Ge
Tenor

Qu Yue
Baritone

Min Jiang
Soprano

Rachael Yu Ming Bastick
Soprano

Yuan Ling
Soprano

Xiaochun Qi
Erhu

Lu Sun
Erhu

Milen Nachev
Conductor

Dmitry Russu
Conductor

Yuan Gao
Conductor

William Kuo
Conductor

Chia-Chi Lin
Conductor

Astrid Martig
Violin

Fiona Zheng
Violin

Kaspar-Laurenz Martig
Trumpet

Aleksander Velichko
Bassoon

Hung-Chieh Yang
Trombone

Pavlo Baishev
Bass Trombone

Eric Robins
Trumpet

Vladimir Zemtsov
Trumpet

Chia-Jung Lee
Flute

Yevgeniy Reznik
Clarinet

Alistair Crawford
Trombone

Linda Wang
Erhu

I-Chen Huang
Cello