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Short bio (125 words):

Charlie Zhong (b. 2007) is an award-winning composer and singer-songwriter who writes orchestral music, chamber music, musical theatre, and produces songs. Born in Shanghai and now living in Boston and New Haven, Charlie’s compositions center around representation and repetition of identity. His music stems from universal feelings—love, pain, passion, fear, etc—and uses composition as a way to understand, deconstruct, and reinterpret them. Charlie's debut album as a songwriter, Angels Under the Moonbeam, was released in May 2025.

Charlie is currently an undergraduate at Yale University, where he is also in the Yale Glee Club. Charlie has studied composition privately with Tak Cheung-Hui, Kareem Roustom, Justin Casinghino, Martin Amlin, and conducting with David Hodgkins. He is a former student of The Walden School.

Full bio:

Charlie Zhong (b. 2007) is an award-winning composer and singer-songwriter who writes orchestral music, chamber music, musical theatre, and produces songs. Born in Shanghai and now living in Boston and New Haven, Charlie’s compositions center around representation and repetition of identity. His music stems from universal feelings—love, pain, passion, fear, etc—and uses composition as a way to understand, deconstruct, and reinterpret them.

Charlie's debut album as a songwriter, Angels Under the Moonbeam, was released in May 2025. The album features 8 tracks of fully original songs and runs about 35 minutes long.

Charlie was a winner of the 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards; the 1st place winner of the 2023 American Prize in Composition, music for orchestra (high school division); the inaugural winner of the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Competition, which led to the commissioning and premiere of “Stilling Memory” by the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra during their 2023-24 season; a winner of the 2021 National Young Composers Challenge, which included the world premiere of “Like a Single Star in the Night Sky” by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in 2022; an Honorable Mention in the 2023 BMI Composer Awards; and the 1st place winner of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York’s Emerging Composers Competition (2022-23). He has also been awarded the ASCAP Foundation Irving Berlin Summer Music Camp Scholarship (2022).

Charlie is currently an undergraduate at Yale University, where he is also in the Yale Glee Club. Charlie has studied composition privately with Tak Cheung-Hui, Kareem Roustom, Justin Casinghino, Martin Amlin, and conducting with David Hodgkins. He has been a participant of The Walden School's Young Musicians Program, Longy's Divergent Studio, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.