Assoc Prof Zhou Xiaodong is Head of Audio Arts & Sciences (AAS) and founding Recording Studio Manager at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. His work has been crucial in the design, establishment and operation of the Conservatory Recording Studio since YST’s founding.
Over the past few years, Xiaodong has engineered more than 400 live concerts and studio sessions with musicians and ensembles including Qian Zhou, Renaud Capuçon, Ning Feng, Nobuko Imai, Qin Li-Wei, Leon Fleisher, Albert Tiu, Thomas Hecht, Phoon Yew Tien, Siow Lee Chin, Zhang Manchin, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, T’ang Quartet, Teng Ensemble and Metropolitan Festival Orchestra.
He has also recorded for prominent recording labels including Decca, Ablaze, Centaur and KNS. Among those recordings, La Noche-21st Century Music for Flute and Harp won CD of the Year in Singapore (2011), and Grand Russian-Tchaikovsky Grand Sonata and Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 1 won CD of the Year in Singapore (2018). Beethoven Cello Sonata was nominated for Best Classical Album by the Australia Recording Industry Association (2010), and Salvador Brotons: The Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 1 won the Universal Music Awards (2017).
Xiaodong has been the audio production director for the Singapore Violin Festival, Singapore International Violin Competition, and Singapore National Day Concert with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (2018 and 2019). He was also the recording engineer of the Singapore national anthem in 2019, and has been a sound consultant for the Singapore Dance Theatre and Metropolitan Festival Orchestra.
He is the author of the Chinese-language book, The Recording Engineer’s Handbook, a member of the AES and Singapore Acoustics Society, and also gives classes in music production technology at Eunoia Junior College (Singapore).
Xiaodong graduated from the M.A. in Audio Science and Acoustics programme at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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