# Zhou Long person laptop\_windows [(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)](/people/zhou-long) Title: *The Five Elements* Commission: 2000 Completed: 2002 Instrumentation: chamber ensemble Premiere Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Premiere Ensemble: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players Notes: Title: *Jin-Shi-Si-Zhu (Metal, Stone, Silk, Bamboo)* Commission: 1993 Completed: 1996 Instrumentation: bamboo flute, clarinet, violin, percussion, cello, and flute Premiere Location: John C. Borden Auditorium, Manhattan School of Music, NYC Premiere Ensemble: New Music Consort Notes: 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. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his first opera, *Madame White Snake*, Dr. Zhou also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the 2012–2013 Elise Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. He has been two-time recipient of commissions from the Koussevitzky, Fromm Music Foundations, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, and the New York State Council on the Arts. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2015, Zhou Long and Chen Yi both were nominated the 58th Grammy Award. Born on July 8, 1953 in Beijing, Zhou Long enrolled in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1977. Following graduation in 1983, he was appointed composer-in-residence with the China Broadcasting Symphony. He travelled to the United States in 1985 under a fellowship to attend Columbia University, where he studied with Chou Wen-Chung, Davidovsky and Edwards, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1993. Dr. Zhou is currently Bonfils Distinguished Research Professor of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. In 2018, Zhou Long has selected to the China National “Special Expert Arts Program,” and became Distinguished Visiting Professor at Arts Center of the SUSTech. - ## Commission Date [1993](/commissiondate/1993) [2000](/commissiondate/2000) - ## Completion Date [1996](/completiondate/1996) [2002](/completiondate/2002) - ## Composer [Long, Zhou](/composer/long-pauline-zhou) - ## Commissions [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)