Chinese composer Fang Fang is one of the young Chinese artists bridging the divide between Chinese folk music and Western classical music. Her compositions include vocal, choral, chamber, piano and orchestral works.
She is a lecturer in the Composition Department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, China. As a specialist in Chinese traditional music, her specialties include Mongolian and Tibetan music, as well as the music of the Zhuang, Dong and Miao tribes. For her efforts in integrating Chinese folk and philosophical elements into her compositions, she has gained several national and international awards including the prestigious Golden Bell Award of Chinese National Music in 2011, the John Mayer Prize in 2014 and 2015, the Birmingham Chamber Music Society Prize in 2015 and the Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestral Composition Prize, also in 2015.
Her compositions have been premiered by many outstanding orchestras and ensembles, such as Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Birmingham Conservatoire Repertoire Orchestra, Decibel Ensemble, Le Page Ensemble, Via Nova Choir and Krock electric guitar quartet.
In 2016, she completed a PhD Degree in Music (Composition) at Birmingham Conservatoire under a scholarship from the Chinese Scholarships Council (CSC) that she won in 2013. During her doctoral research, she studied composition with Joe Cutler, Andrew Toovey, Michael Wolters and Howard Skempton.