Degree

Teaching Experience

Specialities

Performance

• Performances by The Cincinnati Symphony (2013)
  
  
• Performances by The Houston Symphony (2011)


• Performances by The Indianapolis Symphony (2011)


• Performances by Hong Kong Philharmonic at Hong Kong Cultural Centre (2011)


• Performance at National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China (2010, 2012)


• Performance at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, New York (2009)


• Performances at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, New York (2009, 2006)


• Performances at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (2009)


• Performances by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (2008)


• Concert Tour by the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Hong Kong (2008)


• Performances by the Minnesota Orchestra (2007, 2006)


• Performances at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York (2007, 2005)


• Performances by the Biava Quartet (2007)


• Performance by the Arditti String Quartet (2003)


• Performance by Tanglewood Festival Chorus (2002)

• Reno Philharmonic
• Hawaii Symphony Orchestra
• Princeton Symphony
• Spokane Symphony (WA)
• Winston-Salem Symphony (NC)
• Curtis On Tour (in 9 American cities): Roberto Díaz, viola; Soovin Kim, Nadir Khashimov, violins; Jason Vieaux, guitar, etc.
• Great Wall Quartet (Taipei, Macau, Beijing)
• Curtis On Tour - China (Shanghai, Tianjin); Latin America (Costa Rica, Mexico, Brazil)
• The Grand Air Trio (Netherlands, Germany)
• Dover Quartet
• Cincinnati Symphony

Recordings

Recordings

• CD “Poems From the Song Dynasty” (Pacific Audio/Video - China, 2012). Symphonic Suite in 7 Parts. Commissioned by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Performed by Guangzhou Symphony, conducted by Zhou Tian.


• CD “The Great Wall Quartet” (Archimusic - Taiwan, 2012). Includes Zhou Tian String Quartet No. 2 "The Great Wall" and Schubert String Quartet No. 14 "Death and the Maiden". Nominated for the Best Classical Album, Best Album Producer, and Best Instrumental Performance at the 24th Taiwan GMA Awards.


• CD “Odyssey: 11 American Premieres for Flute and Piano” (Innova Recordings - US, 2011). Includes works by Richard Danielpour, Gerald Levinson, Benjamin C.S. Boyle, David Ludwig, Daniel Kellogg, Masonic, Michael Djupstrom and Zhou Tian.


• CD “String Poetic: Chinese Folk Tunes On Cello” (Pacific Audio/Video - China, 2011). Original works and arrangements. The first publicly released Blu-Spec CD in China. Also released in CD and 5.1 surround formats. 


• CD “Billy Collins Suite” (Cedille Records - US, 2009). Named “CD of the Week” by Chicago Tribune (Nov, 2009).


• CD “Symphonic Suite: The Grand Canal” (Pacific Audio/Video - China, 2009). Symphonic Suite in 7 Parts.
  Performed during a nationally televised celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Theme at 2010 Shanghai World Expo.


• DVD, CD “Eternal Beloved - Original Score from the Motion Picture” (Steller Mega Films CO., Ltd. - China, 2009)


• DVD, CD “the Henry Mancini Institute – Free Music Festival” (Henry Mancini Institute - US, 2006)


• CD “2001/2002 Season selections from The Curtis Institute of Music” (Curtis Institute of Music - US, 2002)

Professional Experience

• Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra


• The Minnesota Orchestra
  
  
• Green Bay Symphony, WI


• American Composers Forum
  
  
• Jeffrey Khaner, Principle Flute, The Philadelphia Orchestra
  
  
• The Curtis Institute of Music
  
  
• The Great Wall Quartet


• The Markow-Totevy Foundation


• Lotte Lehmann Foundation, NY
  
  
• The Juilliard School
  
  
• Pius Cheung (via Young Concert Artists, New York)


• Billy Collins Foundation / Music in the Loft


• Hangzhou Philharmonic (China)


• Hangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles / Guangzhou Symphony  (China)


• China Federation of Literary and Art Circles


• Beijing TrueImage Entertainment, Inc. for feature film Eternal Beloved

• Composer-in-Residence, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Green Bay, WI (2009-10)


• Composer-in-Residence, Music In the Loft. Chicago, IL (2007-08)
  
  

• Cincinnati Public Radio (2013)
  
  
• WHYY TV (PBS Philadelphia) - On Stage at Curtis Inst. (2012)
  
  
• Houston Public Radio (2011)


• Indianapolis Public Radio (2011)


• Hong Kong RTHK Radio 4 (2011)


• FutuVision Media, Finland, (2011)


• Classic FM WCNY-FM 91.3 Syracuse (2011-12)


• Sunday Showcase, WHYY 91FM. (2005)


• Multiple TV and radio broadcast in China: CCTV Music Channel, TV and radio stations from Beijing, Guangzhou and Hangzhou. (2008 - present) 


• Film “Eternal Beloved” (爱有来生) with original score by Zhou Tian (周天): nationally televised in China (after its 2010 theatrical release); watched more than 1.7 million times on the country's leading online video provider YouKu.

Distinctions

Awards/Fellowships 

• Excellence Award, 16th National Music Award - Symphonic Work (no awards given in the last 10 years in this category),  The Ministry of Culture of China (2012)


• First Prize, Washington International Composition Competition (2009)


• First Prize, ASCAP and Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition (2009)


• Symphony in C Composers Awards (2008)


• ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2004, 05, 07)


• Minnesota Orchestra Reading Sessions and Composer Institute (2006)


• Composition Fellowship, Aspen Music Festival (2005)


• American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings (2005)
  
  
• Presser Foundation Music Award (2004)


• Composition Fellowship, Fontainebleau Music Festival, France (2004)


• Composition Fellowship, Tanglewood Music Center (2002)

Other Distinctions: 

Symphonic Suite: The Grand Canal by Zhou Tian:

• Performed during a nationally televised celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (2009)


• Included in the 100 Important Audio and Video Publications of 2009 by General Administration of Press and Publication of China


• Selected as a theme at 2010 Shanghai World Expo


• Performed in the opening ceremony of the 11th West Lake International Expo

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