Personalities

China

Bian Liunian (BLN)  Founder Owner of Liunian Music Studio, Beijing

BLN is one of China’s most prolific national composers having composed and produced over 3000 musical pieces. Bian Liunian has for over two  decades been  Chinese Central Television Spring Festival Galla General Musical Director. He has also been the musical producer of some of China’s largest events including the Beijing 2008 Closing Ceremony, the Guangzhou 2010 Asia Games Opening Ceremony and the 2014 Nanjing Olympic Youth Games Opening Ceremony. For over a decade Bian Liunian has enjoyed artistic cooperation with Norwegian folk and world musicians.

Yong Jun Yuan (YJY),  Founder  and Managing Director of Grand China International Film and TV

YJY is a Chinese social entrepeneur  and film producer.  He has since 2003 worked within the Chinese Music, Television and Film Production Sectors. In 2008 he served as international coordinator for Beijing Olympic Ceremonies under Film Director Zhang Yimou.  In 2007 he founded  Grand China International Film and TV that has as its main focus the development of Chinese film productions in cooperation with Holywood and European Film Producers. In 2011 he produced  the award winning Chinese Mainland Film – The Locked Door –  Nu ren ru hua (original title) –  with  Andre Morgan as executive producer. His new film 13 O’Clock is a coproduction between Holywood, China and Korea. YJY has worked with numerous projects in cooperation with Norwegian Embassy in Beijing and diverse cultural entities in Norway within areas of music, film and TV broadcasting.

Norway

Torkel Snellingen (TS), Founder  and Managing Director of Sino Nordic Cultural Productions

TS has over 25 years of experience  as medical and public health researcher,  educationist, project manager and  social entrepeneur.   He has worked with a broad set of state and non state actors  on cooperation projects  between commercial, educational and cultural entities in Nordic  and South Asian (Nepal, Banlgadesh and India) and East Asian Countries  (China, Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia).  In the cultural arena TS has developed numerous small to large scale cultural exchange programs and concert series  in close cooperation with Chinese and Norwegian artists, governmental and non governmental entities (see highlights).