Rui Shi Zhuo
Rui Shi Zhuo (Chinese: 卓汭仕, born 1956) is a Chinese-born Canadian composer living in British Columbia. He has been commissioned by the Canada Council and has written music for an animated film. He also served as composer-in-residence for the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble.
Rui earned a bachelor’s degree in music from the Shanghai Conservatory in 1986 and a master's degree in music from the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Keith Hamel and Stephen Chatman.
In 2003, he was nominated for a Leo Award for the music he wrote for the National Film Board short The Chinese Violin. An album of his compositions was released by Artifact Music in 2004. In 2011, he and Dorothy Chang co-composed the score for the animated film Mountain High River Flow… Without End. In 2014, he wrote music for the BC Chinese Music Ensemble.
He is the conductor of the Vancouver Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.
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