CHARLIE ZHONG
Composer | Boston
Featured work:
Like a Single Star in the Night Sky (2021)
for Orchestra | c. 5 minutes
Performed by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Christopher Wilkins
Upcoming events:
May 14, 2024 - Marvin Cole Auditorium, GA
New work, commissioned by the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra | DeKalb Symphony Orchestra
News:
October 9, 2023 - Like a Single Star in the Night Sky is selected as the first place winner of the 2023 American Prize in Composition—music for orchestra (high school division). More info
May 31, 2023 - Charlie Zhong named as a winner of the 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. More info
May 16, 2023 - Charlie Zhong selected as the honorable mention in the 71st annual BMI Composer Awards. More info
April 1, 2023 - Charlie Zhong is selected as the winner of the 2023 DeKalb Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Competition, along with the commissioning of a new work to be premiered at the 2023-24 DeKalb Symphony Orchestra season. More info
January 31, 2023 - Charlie Zhong is a national semi-finalist in the 2023 American Prize in Composition, orchestral division.
January 18, 2023 - Like a Single Star in the Night Sky (2021) is the 1st prize winner of the 2022-23 Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Emerging Composers Competition, Orchestral Division I
September 2, 2022 - Charlie Zhong is the 2022 recipient of The ASCAP Foundation Irving Berlin Scholarship
April 18, 2022 - Featured on: Young Composers Meet The Challenge And Hear Their Music Take Wing, by Esteban Meneses (Classical Voice North America)
Past events:
July 25, 2023 - The Walden School, Dublin, NH
Fractured Time (2023) [World Premiere] | Mabel Kwan - prepared piano, Erica Dicker - violin
July 13, 2023 - The Walden School, Dublin, NH
Pulsation + Vibration (2023) [World Premiere] | Ross Karre, Clara Warnaar - percussionists
June 27, 2023 - The Walden School, Dublin, NH
To the intangible (alt. version) (2023) | The Walden School
June 14, 2023 - Cambridge, MA
To the intangible (2023) [World Premiere] | The Longy School of Music
April 14, 2023 - Boston, MA
Impulse Variations (2023) [World Premiere] | Olivia Wang - Violin, Aaron Li - Violin, Mirai Duintjer Tebbens Nishioka - Cello
July 25, 2022 - The Walden School, Dublin, NH
... as they converge (2022) [World Premiere] | Chris Wild - cello; Dana Jessen - bassoon
July 19, 2022 - The Walden School, Dublin, NH
Sift (2022) [World Premiere] | Members of the Walden School Faculty
April 10, 2022 - Steinmetz Hall, Orlando, FL
Like a Single Star in the Night Sky (2021) [World Premiere] | Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Wilkins, National Young Composers Challenge
