Prof. John Winzenburg

Associate Dean of Research; Professor, Department of Music and Office of the Dean of Arts


Cross-Cultural; Hybridization and Hybridity in Chinese-Western
“Fusion Concertos”; Chinese Choral Music


Prof. Winzenburg is a professor at the Department of Music, as well as the Director of Cantoría Hong Kong. His research combines traditional, text-based scholarship and non-traditional creative practice as research in three main areas: 1) musical experimentation by Aaron Avshalomov in pre-1949 Shanghai, 2) hybridization and hybridity in Chinese-Western “fusion concertos,” and 3) cross-cultural choral music and choral theatre. He and the Cantoría have actively promoted Chinese choral music in dialogue with international repertoire at major venues and events, including BBC Radio 3, the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. His new CD “Quotation of Queries: Choral Encounters of Hong Kong, China, and the Distant West” with the Cantoría was released by PARMA/NAXOS in April 2020.

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Featured Project

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A New Multivoiced World: Bakhtinian Polyphony and the First Chinese- Western Fusion Concerto
Journal of Musicological Research 37/3 (2018), pp. 209-238

All Projects

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Spanning the Timbral Divide: Tradition, Multiplicity, and Novelty in Chinese-Western Fusion Concerto Instrumentation
China and the West: Representation, Reception, and Reception; University of Michigan Press. (March 2017), pp. 186-204

Musical-Dramatic Experimentation in the Yangbanxi: A Case for Precedence in The Great Wall

Listening to China’s Cultural Revolution: Music, Politics, and Cultural Continuities, London: Palgrave MacMillan (November 2015), pp. 189-212
Half Moon Rising: Choral Music from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan
ISBN 99790577009087; Published: April 15, 2015 by Edition Peters (244 pages)
Heteroglossia and Traditional Vocal Genres in Chinese-Western Fusion Concertos
Perspectives of New Music Volume 51, No. 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 101-140
Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai - Russian Contributions to Modern Chinese Music: Alexander Tcherepnin, Aaron Avshalomov, and Experimental Compositions in Pre-1949 Shanghai
The two articles are published as two book chapters in: Networking the Russian Musical Diaspora in Inter-War Shanghai.