Zou Ye

Zou Ye ( born 20 October 1957 in Henan province, China), is a Chinese modern classical and film music composer. Zou was from the first generation of musical composition graduates from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music (then named the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts), when such education resumed with the end of the Cultural Revolution. Subsequently, Zou became the resident composer at the Wuhan Dance Theatre. During his ten-year residency (1982-1992), he completed a large number of orchestral works and, at the age of 26, Zou composed Zheng He, a major opera based on the story of the ancient Chinese explorer with that name. In 1992, Zou started his residency at the National Children’s Theatre in Beijing, where he remains the sole composer to this day. It was at the National Children’s Theatre that he composed and debuted his successful children’s musical Ma Lan Flower, which has since been performed for over a decade and enjoyed by millions of people. After Zou moved to Beijing, his musical compositions for films started to attract appreciation from a number of fourth and fifth generation Chinese filmmakers. For example, he worked closely with the director Huang Jianzhong on a number of maj