Qian Sun

Qian is a first-year PhD student in Ethnomusicology. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Piano Performance and a master’s in Ethnomusicology. She is interested in music on the margins and the underlying contexts behind various musical expressions. During her master’s studies at the University of Florida, she developed a deep fascination with diverse music scenes. She particularly enjoys researching interactions of both traditional and modern music events in Yunnan, China. Her current research focuses in music in diaspora and recontextualization process.