Jing Zhou is a composer and guzheng performer. She fuses new and bold musical ideas with her traditional Chinese musical heritage to create a distinct compositional style. She recently finished her DMA in composition at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, where she studied with Zhou Long, James Mobberley and Chen Yi. Previously, Zhou completed her Master’s in Composition at the New England Conservatory of Music and her Bachelor’s in Composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
As both a composer and performer, Jing Zhou is a fixture at events around the world. Zhou fuses bold musical ideas with her traditional Chinese musical heritage to create a distinct compositional style. As a zheng performer, she has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Le Poisson Rouge, Symphony Space,National Garden Museum and the Kauffman Center.
Zhou’s pieces have been performed by a variety of ensembles, including Music from China, Dinosaur Annex, 12:19 Ensemble, and Formosa Trio, New England Conservatory Philharmonia, and Shanxi Symphony Orchestra and in venues across America, Europe and China. Her works was spotlighted in the New York Women Composers collaboration with The Flute Examiner and the Cello Museum in New York. The Four Gentlemen Among Flowers for clarinet and zheng was included in the album East meets West, Vol II by Albany Records.