Andrew Zhou is a London-based Australian composer working in the intersection of film, image, and music.
He writes and produces music for acoustic and electroacoustic forms, installation, film, and dance, often exploring the specific relationships we have with place and how we navigate and coexist within our environment.
Composer
2025 Dalfram Dispute, music for documentary, SBS Chinese, AU
2025 Awakening Under the Bodhi Tree, music for installation, Buddha’s Birthday Multicultural Festival, Nan Tien Temple, Berkeley, AU
2025 light as breath, Within Heaven and Earth exhibition, Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Smithfield, AU
2024 Rehearsal in Progress, music and sound for short film
2023 this is beppu!, music for Aburaya Kumahachi 100-year anniversary musical, Beppu, JP
2023 Follow the Line I, for piano, Powerhouse Museum Castle Hill Family Day workshop, Sydney, AU
2023 plant a tree for the king and the queen, for a group of sustaining instruments. Hammersmith and Fulham Council for King’s Coronation Parks’ Concert, London, UK
2022 Gate of Grace, Moon Lantern Trail, OzAsia Festival 2022, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, AU
2022 Shadow Gives Birth, Where Shadows Meet exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, AU
2022 A new world on Earth, music for animated film, OzAsia Festival 2022, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, AU
2022 Gates, music for installation, Darling Harbour, Sydney, AU
2021 Where we have always been, for narrator, clarinet, cello, and pre-recorded sound. Art of Science – Great Exhibition Road Festival, Imperial College, London, UK
2021 Tunnel, for alto saxophone and viola, Royal College of Music, London, UK
2021 Reborn, music for film. Finalist, Out from the Mist Exhibition, Brisbane, AU
2021 Response in red, yellow and blue, for alto saxophone and pre-recorded sound
2021 Tuning In, for virtual ensemble and wind ensemble, online
2020 sitting spaces, for wind quintet, Royal College of Music, London, UK
2020 Dream Sequence, for orchestra, Royal College of Music, London, UK
2020 Melody For A New Day, series of 1-minute ‘melodies’ and accompanying videos, online
2020 Threads, for viola
2020 Enduring, electroacoustic music for installation, Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney, AU
2020 age rises to the surface, music for Treephonia, online
2019 Sweep and Stroke, for double bass
2019 I dance with you, for orchestra, music for installation, Vivid Sydney: Light, Music and Ideas Festival, Sydney, AU
2019 A conversation with SHADOWS, surround sound and music installation, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, AU
2018 Closer, for wind and string octet
2018 Hidden Grove, for wind sextet
2018 Excavation, music for animation, Mon œil, Centre Pompidou – web-series (Episode 101), online
2018 El Empleo, music for animation, International Animated Film Music Competition at Megaron, Athens Concert Hall, GR
2017 Erica, for cello, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2017 The Pentatonic Roosters, music for installation, City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival, Sydney, AU
2017 Composition: Innocence, Reflection, Fire, Chance, music for installation, Margaret Whitlam Galleries, Western Sydney University; Adelaide Festival Centre, AU
2017 The Leaf of the Poplar, music for animation, International Animated Film Music Competition at Megaron, Athens Concert Hall, GR
2016 Journey to the West, music for animation, National Library of Australia, Canberra, AU
Performer
2023 Notes On A Tree, performance/live reading/film, Ineffable Sounds Live: Ecomusicology, London, UK
2023 Beppu Conversation, live concert/solo exhibition, Beppu Art Month, Oita, JPN
Director / Curator / Conductor
2024 Treephonia: listening/walking/playing, Kindred Open Studios, London, UK
2022 Treephonia: Live 2022, London, UK
2022 Treephonia Winter, sound and moving image installation. Royal College of Music, London, UK
Film-maker
2024 description of a scene, short film, screened at The Poetic Lens 2025, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, US
2023 snow walks [still/around/towards/crow/away], short film
2023 Peckham Rye Station, short film, screened at The Engine Room 2023, Morley Gallery, London, UK
2023 Goldberg Thirteen, short film
2023 ONE COW THEN TWO COWS FOUR COWS TWO COWS ONE COW THEN ONE SHRUB, short film
2022 The Anatomy of a Caress, short film, screened at SOUND/IMAGE 22, University of Greenwich, London, UK
2021 Tuning In, short film
Interviews / Talks / Writing
2023 Treephonia: Notes On A Tree, series of observations, diary entries, film, and field recordings
2022 Interfacing (presenting The Anatomy of a Caress), 9th Music and/as Process Conference, University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK
2022 Treephonia, interview with Tom Service, BBC Radio 3: Music Matters
2022 The scientist, the composer, the artist in conversation. Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, AU
2021 Treephonia: Reimagining our planet through sound, Great Exhibition Road Festival, Imperial College, London, UK
2021 Treephonia: Reimagining our environment through sound, Great Exhibition Road Festival: Explore At Home, online
Awards
2022 Genesis Foundation Kickstart Fund – Treephonia
2021 RCM Accelerate Graduate Fund – Treephonia
2020 RCM Elgar Memorial Prize for Composition
Education
2021 Bachelor of Music Honours (First Class) in Composition, Royal College of Music, London, UK