>View CV (updated Sept. 2025).

Charlie Zhong is a Shanghai-born composer and singer/songwriter currently based in Boston and New Haven. Charlie writes music that is ever-changing in shape and identity—from the old to the new; the neon to the gray; the Eastern to the Western; the boring to the uncanny; and the many colored lines in-between. 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 has studied privately with Tak Cheung Hui, David Hodgkins, Julien Siino, and Marco Flores-Villanueva. Charlie is currently an undergraduate at Yale University, and has spent his summers studying music at The Walden School, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Longy School of Music.