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Dr. Bryan Minghui BI Granted William Evans Fellowship
23/11/2018 Dr. Bryan Minghui BI of Peking University has recently been granted William Evans Visiting Fellowship of the University of Otago.
Associate Professor Bryan Minghui BI of Peking University has recently been granted 2018 William Evans Visiting Fellowship of the University of Otago, New Zealand. As one of the key academic fellowships of the University of Otago, William Evans Fellowship enjoys very high honor. The Fellowship will finance Dr. BI to visit the University of Otago as a visiting professor in 2019. A/Prof. Bi is a conductor, faculty member and researcher of the Department of Music, School of Arts, Peking University, and he is also an active research fellow of the New Zealand Center. He is the first academic of Peking University to win this prestigious fellowship. Apart from teaching courses in Western and Chinese music, Dr. BI engages with studying the history of Western and Chinese music and professional performances as conductor. One of his research projects is to study and write a monograph of the history of music in New Zealand, including the history of Maori music. His visit to the University of Otago as the William Evans Visiting Professor will contribute to his teaching, research and academic exchanges with New Zealand academics and musicians.
Dr. BI as an Active and Productive Conductor The William Evans fund of the University of Otago was established by the University Council in 1946 under the will of the late Dr William Evans, a well-known family physician in Dunedin, who died in 1943. He bequeathed the remainder of his estate to the University of Otago, which, on the recommendation of the Professorial Board, is mainly devoted to financing a Visiting Professorship for the promotion and encouragement of learning. Fellowship awards are made by invitation from the University upon recommendation from the William Evans Selection Committee. The William Evans Fellowship was first held by Dr. Harold Mattingly (1923~2015), a Visiting Professor of Classics, who was an authority on the Roman Empire. |
