Short Biography

Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian's music has been performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Curtis Symphony, Guangzhou Symphony, Arditti Quartet, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Zhou earned music degrees from both Curtis and Juilliard, is a first-prize winner of the Washington International Composers Competition, first-prize winner of ASCAP and Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition and a three-time winner of the ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award. Zhou’s compositions have received multiple performances in prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His “Symphonic Suite: The Grand Canal” was recorded by the Guangzhou Symphony and released by China's largest label Pacific Audio & Video in 2009. The work was performed during a nationally televised celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Recently Grammy Award-winning Cedille Records released Zhou's work in “The Billy Collins Suite”, a recording which was named CD of the Week by Chicago Tribune. Zhou's recent premieres include "First Sight", commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra under Sarah Hicks, and "Blowing Westward", premiered by award-winning percussionist Pius Cheung at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. For more information please visit www.ZhouTian.org