bio - ZHUOSHENG JIN 金卓晟

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With his music described as “powerful” and “haunting” (The New York Times), Zhuosheng Jin (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.

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), 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), 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, Klangforum Wien (soloists), Ensemble InterContemporain (soloists), Ensemble MusikFabrik (soloists), Divertimento Ensemble (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale (soloists), Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, JACK Quartet, and Ensemble Mise-en, etc., as well as conductors Pierre-André Valade, Jean-Philippe Wurtz, Guillaume Bourgogne, Kanako Abe, Pasquale Corrado, Yongyan Hu, Daye Lin, and Brian Liao, et al. He has upcoming activities with AsianArt Ensemble, Guangxi Contemporary Ensemble, and Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, 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, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Marco Stroppa, and Stefano Gervasoni, et al.

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 the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California Irvine, Université de Montréal, and Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 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 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.

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, Beat Furrer, Pierluigi Billone, Marco Stroppa, and Stefano Gervasoni, et al.

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金卓晟，作曲家，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, 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。

金氏是大陆首位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 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。他同时也两次入围I/CREATION 作曲比赛终选，并入围2019 Breaking Music 作曲比赛和2018 Giovannini 作曲比赛的优胜名单。其作品亦多次参加各种形式的甄选，获得瞩目成绩和业内好评。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。

作品上演于四大洲二十一个国家。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、浙江交响乐团、东京爱乐乐团, Klangforum Wien (soloists), Ensemble InterContemporain (soloists), Ensemble MusikFabrik (soloists), Divertimento Ensemble (soloists), Meitar Ensemble, Ensemble Itinéraire (soloists), Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale (soloists), Quatuor Béla, Ensemble Mdi, Syntax Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, 和JACK Quartet；指挥家胡咏言、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。

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》。

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。