Zhang Zhao is one of the most active contemporary Chinese composers and a professor at the School of Music of Minzu University of China who has been composing for the German music publisher Schott.

Zhou Guangren, member of the Communist Party of China, is one of the most influential Chinese pianist and educator in the international music scene.

He is the director of the editorial board and the International Academic Committee of Translation of Library of China’s Modern and Contemporary Cultural Classics. Born in 1965 in Beijing, he graduated from the Chinese Department, Peking University, in 1986.