Festival Archipel 2018, Genève - biographie de Zhuosheng Jin

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Académie de quatuors Archipel II - 03.25 2:00pm

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With his music which has been described as «powerful» and «haunting» (The New York Times), Zhuosheng Jin, born in 1991, Ningbo, China, is a composer, pianist, and author. His music spans on a variety of instrumentations and mediums, including orchestra, chamber, solo, electronic, and film music. Throughout his works, Jin has been interested in relationships between gesture and sound. Jin's pieces have been performed worldwide in North America, Europe, China, and Taiwan. He is currently

a D.Mus. fellow in McGill University with Philippe Leroux and John Rea. He is also the selected winner of 2017-18 Société de concerts de Montréal Emerging Composers Competition and the winner of 2017 TURNmusic Collegiate Composition Prize. Jin has also worked as an author, director, and curator. Main projects include «Funeral of Adam» (director, screenwriter, and leading actor; film, 2012), and «Eyes and Mind» (curator and sound director; art exhibition, 2015), among others.