bio - ZHUOSHENG JIN 金卓晟

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With his music described as “powerful” and “haunting” (The New York Times), Zhuosheng Jin, Dr. (b1991, Ningbo, China) is a composer, pianist, and writer. Jin’s music spans on a variety of instrumentations and mediums, including orchestra, chamber, solo, and electronic. Influenced by filmmakers such as Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky, Jin's composition emphasises relationships between literature, especially poetry, and sonic texture. In his music, the sound is always driven by its literary implications. There are particular topics setting his composition up that he often emphasises in his music writings, including the destined loneliness of beings, identities, homesickness, love, and so on

Dr. Jin is currently an Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He holds degrees from Oberlin College (BM ‘15), Boston University (MM ‘17), and McGill University (DMUS ‘22). His teachers include Philippe Leroux, Joshua Fineberg, Josh Levine, Alex Mincek, and Xiaogang Ye (composition), Shuxing Zheng, Robert Shannon, Webb Wiggins, and David Breitman (keyboard), Davide Ianni (electronic music), and Christoph Neidhöfer (music theory), among others. Jin also followed private lessons and master-classes with Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Marco Stroppa, and Stefano Gervasoni, et al.

The awards he has won include Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (2019, 3rd prize), Matan Givol Composers Competition (2020, 1st prize), Salvatore Martirano Award (2020, 1st prize), Irino Prize (2021), Novalis International Composition Competetion (2021), Luba Zuke Prize (2021), New Generation Composition Competition (2020, 3rd prize), John Rea Award (2019), Société de concerts de Montréal Emerging Composers Competition (2018), and TURNmusic Collegiate Composition Prize (2017). He has also received honourable mentions in I/CREATION Composition Competition (2021 and 2018), Appassionato Ensemble Composition Competition (2021), Lake George Composition Competition (2019), Breaking Music Composition Contest (2019), and Giovannini Composition Competition (2018), etc. His scores are published by Babel Scores.

Jin's music has been programmed worldwide by IRCAM-Manifeste, Festival Archipel, Impuls Festival, Composit New Music Festival, Delian New Music Festival, outHear New Music Week, CEME Festival, ARCO Université, June in Buffalo New Music Festival, and Beijing Modern Music Festival, etc. He has written for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Wien (soloists), Ensemble InterContemporain (soloists), Ensemble MusikFabrik (soloists), Divertimento Ensemble (soloists), Schallfeld Ensemble (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale (soloists), AsianArt Ensemble, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, JACK Quartet, Trio Roadrunner, and Ensemble Mise-en, etc., as well as conductors Pierre-André Valade, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Guillaume Bourgogne, Kanako Abe, Pasquale Corrado, Guoyong Zhang, Yongyan Hu, Daye Lin, and Brian Liao, et al. His articles are published by major periodicals such as Music Weekly, China, etc.

Jin has also worked as an author, director, and curator. Projects include “At the Last Day” (director, screenwriter, and leading actor; short drama, 2009 made in Beijing), “Funeral of Adam” (director, screenwriter, and leading actor; film, 2012 made in Xi'an), “Eyes and Mind” (curator and sound director; art exhibition, 2015 in Shenzhen Art Academy), and “HOME” (sound artist, installation, 2017 made in Boston), "field | guide" (text, multimedia project, 2019 - 22 in Boston), among others. His first book of poems will be published in 2023 in Taiwan.

He is the founder and currently the organiser of "MUS Talks" Lecture Series and the Salon Concert Series at CUHK Shenzhen. As a guest lecturer, Jin has been well-received at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California Irvine, Université de Montréal, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and several Chinese universities, among others.

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Zhuosheng Jin’s music is described as “powerful” and “haunting” (The New York Times). His composition emphasises relationships between literature, especially poetry, and sonic texture. He wins 2021 Irino Prize (1st prize, Japan), 2020 Matan Givol Composers Competition (1st prize, Israel), 2020 Salvatore Martirano Award (1st prize, US), 2019 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (3rd prize, Japan), among others.

Jin's music has been programmed in more than 20 countries. He wrote for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble InterContemporain (soloists), Klangforum Wien (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, and Mivos Quartet, etc., and has worked with conductors including Pierre-André Valade, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Guillaume Bourgogne, and Kanako Abe, et al. His scores are published by BabelScores France.

Jin is currently an Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and is the founder and organiser of "MUS Talks" Lecture Series and the Salon Concert Series at the school. He holds degrees from Oberlin College (BM‘15), Boston University (MM‘17), and McGill University (DMUS‘22). His teachers include Philippe Leroux, Josh Levine, and Xiaogang Ye, et al.

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金卓晟，作曲家，博士，深圳市高级引进人才，香港中文大学（深圳）音乐学院助理教授。中国宁波人。他的音乐被形容为“有说服力，难以忘怀的。”（《纽约时报》）7岁习琴，师从郑曙星教授。曾求学中央音乐学院附中、欧柏林学院、波士顿大学和麦吉尔大学。他的作曲老师包括叶小纲、徐之彤, Philippe Leroux, Joshua Fineberg, Josh Levine, 和Alex Mincek 等。除此之外，他也活跃于Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, 和Marco Stroppa 等人的私人课程和大师课。金氏的创作着眼于织体与音色的关系，通过不同织体间的变化和交错，达成音色上的多样性。他认为音乐创作应当有乐思与声响上的双重考虑，好的作品不但须要织体运用与曲式结构上的逻辑，更需要声响上有目的性的构建与音色上的华丽。他的创作亦多包含较深的文学背景。

荣获国际大奖二十余。他是大陆首位Matan Givol 作曲比赛和Salvatore Martirano 作曲奖金奖的获得者（均为2020 年）。其它荣誉包括2019 年武满彻作曲赏、2021 入野赏、2021 Novalis 作曲奖、2021 Luba Zuk 奖、2020 New Generation 作曲奖、2019 John Rea 奖、2017-18 Société de concerts de Montréal 新兴作曲家比赛，和2017 TURNmusic 学院作曲奖等。他同时也两次入围I/CREATION 作曲比赛终选（2018、2021），并入围2021 Appassionato Ensemble 作曲比赛，2019 Breaking Music 作曲比赛，2019 Lake George 作曲比赛和2018 Giovannini 作曲比赛的优胜名单。其交响乐《蜃景》被选入人民音乐出版社“新时代中国交响作品原创精粹”，其它作品亦多次入围各类甄选，获得瞩目成绩和业内外的好评。金氏同时也是多个乐团的驻团作曲家及数项奖学金的拥有者和候选人。

作品上演于四大洲二十三个国家。他参与的音乐节包括北京现代音乐节、广西东盟音乐周, IRCAM-Manifeste, Festival Archipel, Impuls Festival, Composit New Music Festival, Delian New Music Festival, outHear New Music Week, CEME Festival, ARCO Université, 和June in Buffalo New Music Festival等，并与北京交响乐团、贵阳交响乐团、浙江交响乐团、东京爱乐乐团, Klangforum Wien (soloists), Ensemble InterContemporain (soloists), Ensemble MusikFabrik (soloists), Divertimento Ensemble (soloists), Schallfeld Ensemble (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Ensemble Itinéraire (soloists), Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale (soloists), AsianArt Ensemble, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, 和JACK Quartet；指挥家张国勇、胡咏言、林大叶、廖元宏、阿部加奈子, Pierre-André Valade, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Guillaume Bourgogne, 和Pasquale Corrado 等团体和个人合作。他的乐谱由法国出版社Babel Scores 代理发行，部分乐谱及音像也由人民音乐出版社和中央音乐学院出版社出版。他的文章发表于数个国际学术平台及《音乐周报》等文化期刊。

以巾城为笔名发表文字，作品涉及诗、小说、散文、戏剧等众多形式，并在多地发表。他的第一本诗集将于今日出版发行。作为导演，由他编导的舞台短剧《绝期》（2008）及编导并主演的独立电影《亚当的葬礼》（2011）曾于中国西安和北京上映，获得反响。2015年，他以策展人身份参与了由深圳画院主办的《眼与心——中国当代联觉实验艺术展》。2022年春，他参与的跨界艺术项目“field | guide”于波士顿面世并出版发行。

金氏致力于当代音乐的推广和教育。他是香港中文大学（深圳）音乐学院“MUS Talks”讲座系列和沙龙音乐会系列的发起人和策划人。他的讲座亦活跃于国内外各大院校及音乐节，颇获很好的反响。