Huang Yijun (simplified Chinese: 黄贻钧; traditional Chinese: 黄貽鈞) (Born 4 May 1915; Died 11 October 1995) was a Chinese conductor and composer.
Born in Suzhou into a musical family, Huang exhibited great musical talent from a young age. His father, a strict man, taught him organ and violin, and Huang taught himself a variety of Chinese and Western instruments, including piano, harmonica, erhu, yangqin, jinghu, yueqin and even Beijing and Kun Opera[1]
He moved to Shanghai in the mid 1930's, where he joined in orchestral recordings for the Pathé label. In 1935, he joined the Shanghai Worker's Orchestra, which later became the Shanghai City Symphonic, under Huang's leadership, where he meet other early Chinese conductors such as Cao Peng. In a thirty year career at the orchestra, he recorded a number of film-scores, and accepted invitations to conduct symphonies in Finland (1956), the USSR (1958) and, at the express invitation of Herbert Von Karajan in 1981 Berlin.[1]