Zhou Long
- January 4, 2024
- Composer
Quick Facts
Zhou Long Biography
| Name | Zhou Long |
| Birthday | Jul 8 |
| Birth Year | 1953 |
| Birth Country | China |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Spouse | Chen Yi |
Zhou Long is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on July 8, 1953 in China. Pulitzer Prize winner, who combined elements of both American and Chinese music styles to create an original sound.
For the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, he collaborated with YoYo Ma.
Nearing the end of the Cultural Revolution, he was able to resume his musical studies in the areas of composition, music theory, conducting and also traditional Chinese music. One year after the end of the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Long was one of one hundred students chosen from eighteen thousand applicants to study at the newly reopened Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1977. From 1977-1983, he studied composition with Su Xia.
After graduating in 1983, Zhou Long was appointed with the position of composer-in-residence with the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra of China. With only a brief stay in this position, Zhou Long journeyed to the United States under a fellowship to attend Columbia University and further his composition studies with Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky, and George Edwards, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1993. Living in Brooklyn, New York, he became the music director of Music From China, a group founded in 1984 with the aim of presenting concerts of traditional Chinese music in the United States. Under the direction of Zhou Long, Music From China expanded its original goals to also encompass contemporary Chinese works that reflect both Chinese and Western sound worlds and musical languages.
His family was an artist. In 1999, he married Chen Yi, a fellow composer.
Zhou Long Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Composer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Zhou Long is one of the richest Composer from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Zhou Long 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a farmer on a state-owned farm, where he drove a tractor during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music 2011 for his opera, “Madame White Snake”, which was first performed at Opera Boston’s Cutler Majestic Theatre.
Zhou Long (simplified Chinese: 周龙 ; traditional Chinese: 周龍 ; pinyin: Zhōu Lóng ; born July 8, 1953) is a Chinese American composer. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Zhou Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Zhou Long celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.