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.

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 has studied privately with Tak Cheung Hui, David Hodgkins, Julien Siino, and Marco Flores-Villanueva. His works often find inspiration from composers like Lei Liang, Kaija Saariaho, Gérard Grisey, and Alfred Schnittke. Some of Charlie's influences can also be found in the songs and writings of Paul Simon.

Charlie is currently a high-school senior at the Commonwealth School in Boston, and has spent his summers studying music at The Walden School, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Longy School of Music.