Robert Zollitsch (composer)

Robert Zollitsch (; born 1966) is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (, literally “Old Ro/Gong”) in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian music and a very important composer of contemporary Chinese art music. Early life and education Zollitsch was born in Munich, Germany in 1966. Zollitsch grew up with the Folk music of his home region, learning early in his childhood a classical Bavarian folk music instrument, the Bavarian zither. From 1986 to 1990 he studied music theory and graduated from the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin. In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study Chinese traditional music and the Chinese zither Guqin in Shanghai. Musical career Zollitsch is known as an expert in Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan art music. He has been producing and working with Chinese musicians or singers as Gong Linna, Urna, Du Cong, Qiu Ji, Luo Yan, by composing pieces for traditional Chinese instruments that make extensive use of harmonies, fusing together elements of different cultures, which leads to music that seems to be of traditional Chinese art music style with a western influence, sometimes sounding like