王愛康 WANG Ai-kang
王愛康，作曲家、指揮家、大提琴演奏家。中國音樂家協會會員，江蘇省音協民族音樂委員會主任，中國民族管弦樂學會會員，學會專業指揮委員會理事，阿炳藝術委員會理事、副秘書長，劉天華、阿炳中國民樂基金會理事，江蘇省藝術系列高級職稱評定委員會委員，南京大學藝術教育中心藝術指導，南京一中藝術團藝術指導，南京市小學生民族樂團藝術指導，南京市青少年民族樂團藝術指導。江蘇省宜興人，江蘇省演藝集團一級作曲，藝術指導，曾就讀於江蘇省藝術學校和南京藝術學院，師從宋保軍、郭瑛、陳洪、孟傑、石中光等學習大提琴演奏、音樂基本理論、試唱練耳、和聲學、樂隊訓練課等。歷任江蘇省歌舞團樂隊隊長、江蘇省歌舞團副團長、江蘇省歌舞劇院副院長，現任江蘇省演藝集團所屬的江蘇省民族樂團團長、作曲、常任指揮。所創作的民族器樂合奏曲《竹歌》和《楊柳青青》分獲第二屆全國民族器樂作品展播評比一等獎和優秀作品獎。在第二、第三、第四、第五屆江蘇省音樂舞蹈節上多次獲作品一、二、三等獎。1994年因指揮江蘇省聯合民族樂團演奏其獲獎作品而開始了他的指揮生涯，並在其後歷屆江蘇省音樂舞蹈節上獲得過指揮獎和優秀指揮獎。擔任了第六屆、第七屆、第八屆、第九屆和第十屆中國音樂最高獎“金鐘獎”決賽現場伴奏樂團指揮。與全國幾乎所有著名的民樂演奏家以及中央廣播民族樂團、香港中樂團、台灣台北市立國樂團、台灣國樂團、澳門中樂團等有過多次成功的合作，並數十次率團出訪歐美亞多國和港澳台地區。
WANG Ai-kang is a composer, conductor, and cellist. He is a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, Chairman of the Traditional Music Committee of the Jiangsu Musicians Association, member of the Chinese Traditional Orchestra Society, director of the Professional Conducting Committee of the society, director and deputy secretary-general of the Ah Bing Art Committee, director of the LIU Tian-hua and Ah Bing Chinese Music Foundation, member of the Jiangsu Art Senior Title Evaluation Committee, artistic director of the Art Education Center at Nanjing University, artistic director of Nanjing No. 1 High School Art Troupe, and artistic director of the Nanjing Primary School Traditional Orchestra and the Nanjing Youth Traditional Orchestra. He was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province and holds a first-class composition and artistic director position in the Jiangsu Performing Arts Group. He studied at the Jiangsu Art School and Nanjing Art Institute, where he learned cello performance, music theory, sight-singing and ear training, harmony, and orchestra training under the guidance of professors such as SONG Bao-jun, GUO Ying, CHEN Hong, MENG Jie, and SHI Zhong-guang.
WANG Ai-kang has held various positions in his career, including the conductor of the Jiangsu Song and Dance Troupe Orchestra, deputy leader of the Jiangsu Song and Dance Troupe, and deputy director of the Jiangsu Song and Dance Drama Theater. He currently serves as the conductor, composer, and resident conductor of the Jiangsu Traditional Orchestra, which is affiliated with the Jiangsu Performing Arts Group. His compositions, such as the ensemble pieces “Zhu Ge” and “Yang Liu Qing Qing”, received the first prize and excellent work award at the 2nd National Traditional Instrumental Works Exhibition and Evaluation. He has won the first, second, and third prizes for his works at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Jiangsu Music and Dance Festivals. In 1994, he began his conducting career by conducting the Jiangsu United Traditional Orchestra in a performance of his award-winning composition. He has since won conducting awards and excellent conducting awards at the subsequent Jiangsu Music and Dance Festivals. He has served as the conductor of the accompanying orchestra at the finals of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th “Golden Bell Awards”, the highest music award in China. He has collaborated successfully with almost all renowned Chinese instrumentalists, as well as the Central Broadcasting National Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, and the Macau Chinese Orchestra. He has led his orchestra on dozens of successful tours to Europe, America, Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.