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With his music described as “powerful” and “haunting” (The New York Times), Zhuosheng Jin, born in 1991, 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, politics, love, and so on.
The awards he has won include the 2020 Matan Givol Composers Competition (1st prize, Israel), 2020 Salvatore Martirano Award (1st prize, US), 2019 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (3rd prize, Japan), 2019 John Rea Award (exclusive winner, Canada), 2017-18 Société de concerts de Montréal Emerging Composers Competition (selected winner, Canada), and 2017 TURNmusic Collegiate Composition Prize (exclusive winner, US). He has also received honourable mentions in the 2019 Lake George Composition Competition (US), 2018-19 Breaking Music Composition Contest (Italy), 2018 I/CREATION Composition Competition (US), and 2018 Giovannini Composition Competition (Italy). His scores are published by Babel Scores.
Jin's music has been programmed worldwide by Festival Archipel, Impuls Academy, Composit New Music Festival, Livorno Music Festival, Delian New Music Festival, outHear New Music Week, CEME Festival, ARCO Université, Echings New Music Festival, June in Buffalo New Music Festival, Atlantic New Music Festival, São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival, VIPA Festival, Seoul Global Week, Stockholm Brass Academy, and Beijing Modern Music Festival. He has written for the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Wien (soloists), Ensemble MusikFabrik (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Ensemble Itinéraire (soloists), Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale, Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Mise-en, TURNmusic Ensemble, McGill Contemporary Ensemble, McGill Wind Orchestra, Trío Arbós, Zone Expérimentale, Trio Roadrunner, MolOt Ensemble, Ensemble Novel (soloists), and Studio TimeArt, as well as soloists Marco Blaauw (trumpet), Christine Chapman (horn), Kimihiro Yasaka, Paola Iommi (piano), Sylvain Devaux, Dian Zheng (oboe), Cheng-Yu Wu, Laura Cocks (flute), Aaron Smith (viola), An-Laurence Higgins, Daniel Murray (guitar), Wai Nok Hui (percussion), Jie Qi (pipa), Michel Marang (clarinet), and Yiyang Zhao (cello), among others. He has worked with conductors including Pierre-André Valade, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Guillaume Bourgogne, Kanako Abe, Pasquale Corrado, Anne Decker, Lewis Nielson, Moon Young Ha, Yongyan Hu, Daye Lin, Yang Jiao and Brian Liao. He has upcoming activities with Ensemble Intercontemporain (soloists), Divertimento Ensemble (soloists), Illinois Modern Ensemble, Slee Ensemble, and Guangxi Contemporary Ensemble, etc.
Having begun to study piano at the age of seven, and then composition at thirteen, Jin holds degrees from Oberlin College (BM ‘15) and Boston University (MM ‘17) and is currently a DMus. fellow at McGill University with Philippe Leroux. He has also studied with 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, Johannes Schöllhorn, Beat Furrer, Johannes Staud, Clemens Gadenstätter, Bernhard Gander, Philippe Manoury, Frédéric Durieux, Franck Bedrossian, Yann Robin, Raphaël Cendo, Pierluigi Billone, Stefano Gervasoni, Alberto Posadas, Michael Finnissy, Joanna Bailie, Michael Jarrell, Dimitri Papageorgiou, Stratis Minakakis, Dmitri Kourliandski, Oscar Bianchi, Eivind Buene, Henrik Hellstenius, Roger Reynold, and Catherine Milliken.
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).
In addition to being a doctoral student, Jin also works as a lecturer at McGill University and has previously taught at McGill and Boston University as a teaching assistant. He has also been well-received as a guest lecturer at several other universities, such as the University of California Irvine, La Plata National University, and Zhejiang University, 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 the 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 appeared in major festivals and is performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Klangforum Wien (soloists), Ensemble MusikFabrik (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Ensemble Itinéraire (soloists), Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, JACK Quartet, etc., and has worked with conductors including Pierre-André Valade, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Guillaume Bourgogne, Kanako Abe, Pasquale Corrado, et al.
Having begun to study piano at the age of seven, and then composition at thirteen, Jin holds degrees from Oberlin College (BM ‘15) and Boston University (MM ‘17) and is currently a DMus. fellow at McGill University with Philippe Leroux. He also followed private lessons and master-classes with Helmut Lachenmann, Johannes Schöllhorn, Beat Furrer, Alberto Posadas, among others.
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金卓晟，作曲家。他的音乐被形容为“有说服力，难以忘怀的。”（《纽约时报》）1991年出生于中国宁波市，7岁习琴，师从郑曙星教授。金氏曾求学于中央音乐学院附中、欧柏林学院和波士顿大学，现为麦吉尔大学博士候选，师从法国作曲家Philippe Leroux。他的作曲老师还包括徐之彤、叶小纲、Joshua Fineberg、Josh Levine，和Alex Mincek 等。除此之外，他也活跃于Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, Alberto Posadas, 和 Philippe Manoury 等人的私人课程和大师课。
其作品涉及多种编制，包括乐队、室内乐、独奏、电子音乐，和电影音乐。他的创作多包含较深的文学背景。
金氏的音乐上演于世界各地。他参与的音乐节包括北京现代音乐节, Festival Archipel, Impuls Academy, Composit New Music Festival, Livorno Music Festival, Delian New Music Festival, outHear New Music Week, CEME Festival, ARCO Université, Echings New Music Festival, June in Buffalo New Music Festival, Atlantic New Music Festival, São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival, VIPA Festival, 和Seoul Global Week等，并与北京交响乐团、浙江交响乐团、东京爱乐乐团、Klangforum Wien (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Ensemble Itinéraire (soloists), Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale, Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, JACK Quartet, Ensemble Mise-en, Trío Arbós, Zone Expérimentale, Trio Roadrunner, Ensemble Novel (soloists), Studio TimeArt, Wai Nok Hui, 吴正宇、赵艺扬；指挥家胡咏言、林大叶, Pierre-André Valade, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Guillaume Bourgogne, Pasquale Corrado, 阿部加奈子、廖元宏等团体和个人合作。他的部分乐谱由法国出版社Babel Scores 全球代理发行，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在中国大陆出版发行。
他是中国大陆首位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、2019 John Rea 奖、2017-18 Société de concerts de Montréal 新兴作曲家大奖，和2017 TURNmusic 学院作曲奖。他同时也入围了2019 Breaking Music 作曲比赛、2018 Mivos I/CREATION 作曲比赛和2018 Giovannini 作曲比赛的终选名单。此外，其作品也多次入围各种形式的甄选。金氏是或曾是多个乐团的驻团作曲家，也是数项奖学金的拥有者和候选人。
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。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）曾於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》。
除了在麦吉尔大学和波士顿大学担任讲师和助教，金氏的讲座也活跃于各大院校及音乐节，颇获反响。
© 2020 by Zhuosheng Jin.