Jun Cheng Zhong Zhong, Jun Cheng

Jun Cheng Zhong is Professor of Composition at Guangxi Arts University and its School of Music, a distinguished teacher, a council member of the Composition and Composition Theory Society of the Chinese Musicians’ Association, a standing committee member of the Creative Committee of the China Nationalities Orchestra Society, and Artistic Director of the China–ASEAN Music Week. Zhong has written more than eighty works, including the operas “Lingqu Canal of the Qin” (大秦靈渠) and “The Han Maritime Road” (大漢海路); Symphony No. 1 “The Land of Luoyue” (駱越大地); Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3; Symphony No. 4 “New Life” (新生命); Symphony No. 5 “China’s Destiny” (中國命運); Symphony No. 6 “Ai Ge Ai Wa”; Symphony No. 7 “Dust I” (塵I); Symphony No. 8 “Dust III” (塵III); Symphony No. 9 “War and Peace” (戰爭與和平); as well as symphonic poems, concertos, choral works and chamber music. Many of these works have won national and provincial or ministerial composition awards. Zhong has presented a number of portrait concerts of new symphonic works, and many works have been performed around the world by symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles from France, Austria, the United States, Russia, Poland, Australia and ASEAN countries. As founder and Artistic Director, Zhong has successfully presented eight editions of the China–ASEAN Music Week, which won the right to host the 2021 ISCM World New Music Days.