Portrait of Zhuoyuan Li, winner of InterContinental Music Awards 2024, posing for their award

Zhuoyuan Li

InterContinental Music Awards Winner

2024 – Best of America | Jazz


Zhuoyuan Li was born on 4th of July 2006. He is a music composer and producer.

From an early age, he showed a deep interest and talent in music, starting to learn classical piano at the age of four. In 2018, he went to Sydney, Australia, to continue his academic and musical education. At the age of twelve, he began systematic training in classical guitar; a year later, he ventured into the field of music production, exploring the processes of music creation and production. At fifteen, to further expand his range of musical skills, he began to learn viola performance and participated as a violist in rehearsals and performances of local string and symphony orchestras in Sydney.

During his high school years, Zhuoyuan Li was active in the Chinese and Australian commercial music market, providing professional composition and arrangement services to various artists and musicians. Additionally, he composed music for several radio dramas, such as “Bu Tian Gang” and “Lie Huo Jiao Chou” among others. He participated in the recording of original soundtracks for the Amazon Film “Five Blind Dates,” acting as a guitarist. He has also won multiple international music composition competition awards.

Moreover, he collaborated with several renowned symphony and string orchestras, and his works were recorded by orchestras such as the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, the International Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Starliner String Orchestra; his pieces were performed live by orchestras including the Sydney Excelsia Chamber Orchestra.

He will continue his composition study at New England Conservatory of Music from Spring 2025.