CHARLIE ZHONG
Composer | Boston
Charlie Zhong (b. 2007) is a Shanghai-born composer currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. Charlie's music juxtaposes the physical and material world with the less tangible, internal feelings or emotions; often taking his ideas from a non-musical source, Charlie seeks to deliver his concepts to an audience in a way that is both inviting and captivating to the listener.
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
Recent events:
August 6, 2024 - Tanglewood Main Gate & Chamber Music Hall, Lenox, MA
Fanfare for brass quintet performed as part of the 2024 Tanglewood-on-Parade | BUTI brass quintet
May 14, 2024 - Marvin Cole Auditorium, GA
World Premiere of Stilling Memory, commissioned by the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra | DeKalb Symphony Orchestra, Paul Bhasin, conductor
April 5, 2024 - First Church in Boston, Boston, MA
only when the clock stops... (world premiere) | The Commonwealth School Chorale and String Quartet, David Hodgkins, conductor
News:
Feburary 7, 2024 - Call for Scores finalist Interview with Eric Nathan and the New England Philharmonic. Watch here!
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
