Date & Time: 9:30am - 11:00 am, April 8 (Fri). Refreshments will be provided.

Speaker: Professor  Long Zhou 周龙 教授

• Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory

• Winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music (winning work: Madame White Snake)

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Award- Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003

• 2012-2013 Elise Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society

第95届普利策音乐奖、美国艺术文学院终身成就奖、纽约林肯中心室内乐协会颁发的斯托格国际大奖获得者, 现任美国密苏里大学堪萨斯城音乐学院邦菲尔斯杰出作曲教授。
Language: Mandarin
Venue: T6-105 (UIC students and staff) and online (guests)
Eligibility: UIC students, staff, and guests
Registration:https://www.uic.edu.cn/en/ctlreg1.htm (DDL: 2pm, 7 April)

About the Speaker

Zhou Long is internationally recognized for creating a unique body of music that brings together the aesthetic concepts and musical elements of East and West. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his first opera, Madame White Snake, Dr. Zhou also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the 2012-2013 Elise Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. He has been two-time recipient of commissions from the Koussevitzky, Fromm Music Foundations, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, and the New York State Council on the Arts. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2016, Zhou Long and Chen Yi both were nominated the 58th Grammy Award.

Born on July 8, 1953 in Beijing. Zhou Long enrolled in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1977. Following graduation in 1983, he was appointed composer-in-residence with the China Broadcasting Symphony. He travelled to the United States in 1985 under a fellowship to attend Columbia University, where he studied with Chou Wen-Chung, Davidovsky and Edwards, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1993. Dr. Zhou is currently Bonfils Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Zhou’s music of all genres has been widely performed and recorded, and published by the Oxford University Press and the Shanghai Music Publishing House.

周龙被国际公认以创造一种独特的音乐汇集了东方和西方的审美观念和音乐元素。2011年，周龙成为首位美籍华裔作曲家以他的第一部歌剧《白蛇传》获得第95届普利策音乐奖。他获得的奖项还包括美国艺术文学院终身成就奖，纽约林肯中心室内乐协会颁发的斯托格国际大奖，多次美国国会图书馆库茨维斯基音乐基金会委约及哈佛大学弗朗姆音乐基金会作曲委约，美国古根汉基金会奖金，美国国家艺术委员会作曲家委约，美国巴罗基金会国际作曲比赛首奖等。周龙陈怡的交响乐《虎门1839》唱片专辑被提名2016年格莱美奖，同年周龙被授予纽约艺术基金会名人堂荣誉称号。

周龙1953年出生于中国北京。1973年开始向罗忠熔、黎英海、樊祖荫学习作曲，向严良坤学习指挥。1983年毕业于中央音乐学院，师从苏夏。曾任中国广播艺术团驻团作曲家。1985年获纽约哥伦比亚大学奖学金赴美攻读，师从周文中、达维多夫斯基和爱德华兹。1993年获音乐艺术博士学位。现任美国密苏里大学堪萨斯城音乐学院邦菲尔斯杰出作曲教授。2018年入选中国国家“特聘专家”文化艺术人才项目，聘为南方科技大学杰出访问教授。其作品由世界各音乐团体委约演出并录制唱片。周龙的乐谱由牛津大学出版社及上海音乐出版社专权出版。