Short Biography

Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian’s music has been performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Arditti Quartet, the Biava Quartet, flutist Jeffrey Khaner, pianist Yuja Wang and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony. Fanfare has called his music “absolutely beautiful…an unusual but utterly satisfying fusion of French flavors with an American view of a Chinese poem.”

Zhou earned music degrees from both Curtis and Juilliard, is a first-prize winner of the Washington Intl. Composers Competition and first-prize winner of ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition. His “Symphonic Suite: The Grand Canal” was performed during a nationally televised celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The work was also selected as theme music for the Zhejiang Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Mr. Zhou joined the music faculty at Colgate University in 2011. Highlights of his upcoming commissions and performances include the Cincinnati Symphony, the Reno Philharmonic and Curtis On Tour. Visit www.ZhouTian.org for more.