上海音乐学院管弦系小提琴副教授，硕士生导师。五岁开始学习小提琴，1985年考入上音附小，以优异成绩先后免试直升进入上音附中、本科及硕士研究生学习，师从赵基阳、陈新之、俞丽拿、郑石生等名师。1999年，作为“和弦”四重奏组的第二提琴，应邀赴奥地利莫扎特音乐学院师从“哈根四重奏”学习室内乐，2001年获硕士学位后留校任教。
作为独奏家，袁佳敏曾分别应邀与上海交响乐团、上海歌剧交响乐团、上海爱乐乐团在重大艺术活动中合作演出。2005年在中国首演俄罗斯作曲家索菲亚﹒古贝多丽娜的小提琴协奏曲“奉献”，受到专业人士的一致称赞。在室内乐表演方面，曾赴德奥、美、日等国家举办多场室内乐专场音乐会，参加的音乐节包括有横滨“亚洲现代音乐节”、“香港ISCM国际现代音乐节”、萨尔兹堡“ASPEKTE”现代音乐节”、“汉诺威现代音乐节”、“北京现代音乐节” 等。
在小提琴教学方面，所培养的学生曾先后在中国音乐金钟奖、CCTV中国音乐电视大奖赛等比赛中获得名次，多名学生入选加拿大音乐桥、小泽征尔音乐塾、亚洲青年管弦乐团等重大音乐活动，部分学生现已经成为全国各大专业艺术团体中的骨干力量。

Ms. Yuan Jiamin, born in Shanghai in 1976, has started learning violin performing at the age of five. Her systematically professional training in violin performing in the Music Primary School, the Music Middle School affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory and department of winds and strings of SCM started from 1985 to 2001. In March of 1999, as the second violin of the “Chord Quartet”, she was invited to University Mozarteum Salzburg for one semester for further improvement and exchange. At present, she is working at the department of winds and strings of SCM as associate professor of violin.
From 2000-2006, Ms. Yuan had extensive performing experience in solo and chamber ensemble. In 2000 she made her debut playing Beethoven violin concerto with Shanghai Opera Orchestra. The year after, she was invited to play Brahms double concerto with conductor Marco Parisotto and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Shanghai New Ensemble, she has actively participated in “2000 Asian Musical Festival Yokohama”, “ISCM 2002 Hong Kong Festival”, “ASPEKTE Salzburg 2004” and “Music festival Seelze 2005 Hannover”. It was her, as the first player in China, who was invited to perform violin concerto “offertorium” which was composed by Sofia Gubaidulina with Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in “2005 Shanghai International Music Festival”, and acknowledged as a great success.
As for violin teaching, Her students has started to obtain ranking in several major events such as China Music Golden Bell Awards and CCTV China Music Awards competition, Some of them now have played major roles in Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.