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. Zhou Long was born into an artistic family and began piano lessons at an early age. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to a rural state farm, where the bleak landscape with roaring winds and ferocious wild fires made a profound and lasting impression. He resumed his musical training in 1973, studying composition, music theory, and conducting, as well as Chinese traditional music. In 1977, he enrolled in the first composition

LAN SHUI has been Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 1997, Chief Conductor of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra since the 2007/08 season and recently concluded a five year period as Artistic Advisor of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra...