Chen Zhi

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

Chen Zhi (; pinyin: Chén Zhì) is a Chinese classical guitarist and educator.

Chen has for many years served as professor of classical guitar at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and in 1982 he founded China's first school of classical guitar, the Chen Zhi School of Classical Guitar. In 1986 he assumed the post as council director of the China Beijing Guitar Society.

As initiator and artistic director, Chen Zhi organized the first China International Guitar Festival in 1987.

He has hosted the radio program Classical Guitar Lesson Once a Week since 1984. Since 1993, he has hosted the CCTV television program The Skill and Expression of Classical Guitar, which is broadcast three times per week. Since 1989 he has served as director, artisic instructor, and conductor of the China Broadcasting Guitar Orchestra.

Chen has written several books and many articles about the classical guitar, which were published both in China and abroad.

He has performed and/or lectured in Japan, Spain, Portugal, and several other nations.

A number of his students, notably Yang Xuefei and Wang Yameng, have won international competitions.

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