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Short bio (125 words):

Charlie Zhong (b. 2007) is a Shanghai-born composer, singer-songwriter, and lyricist based in Boston and New Haven. Charlie’s compositions range from orchestral music to musical theatre to indie rock songs. He has been named a winner of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer award, an American Prize in composition, among many others. Charlie's debut album as a singer-songwriter, Angels Under the Moonbeam, was released in May 2025.

Charlie is currently an undergraduate at Yale University and is a member of the Yale Glee Club where he is also its 2026-27 student conductor. Charlie has studied composition with Tak Cheung-Hui, Kareem Roustom, Justin Casinghino, and Martin Amlin, musical theatre composition with Jeanine Tesori, and conducting with David Hodgkins and Jeffrey Douma. He is a former student of The Walden School.

Full bio:

Charlie Zhong (b. 2007) is a Shanghai-born composer, singer-songwriter, and lyricist based in Boston and New Haven. Charlie’s compositions range from orchestral music to musical theatre to indie rock songs. 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 and is a member of the Yale Glee Club where he is also its 2026-27 student conductor. Charlie has studied composition privately with Tak Cheung-Hui, Kareem Roustom, Justin Casinghino, Martin Amlin, musical theatre composition with Jeanine Tesori, 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.