https://www.ziniachan.com/work-1 daily 0.75 2023-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/1653139552862-5ZCWET6TLK0IZUBH5LVB/_dsf9610.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/1653139552862-5ZCWET6TLK0IZUBH5LVB/_dsf9610.jpg Work https://www.ziniachan.com/mainpage daily 1.0 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/bc80fe6e-4c76-4809-8c9e-29dba943d47c/IMG_5230.jpeg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/13b3f6c1-41bf-4c0c-a707-4b5deaf1b8cc/ZiniaChan_photoPiaJohnson_099_BW.jpg Welcome - Hey! I’m Zinia. Composer and Researcher who’s passionate about capturing the natural world, understanding human conditions, and making a difference around us through recorded sounds and music notation, and extramusical artforms. Feel free to explore my digital abode and reach out to say hi! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/a4e3c459-b8ef-47ed-8b7d-0135f99b9ddb/ACNS+Logo.png Welcome - Australasian Cognitive neuroscience Society ACNS 2025 Melbourne Conference Paper presentation details coming soon https://www.ziniachan.com/list-of-works daily 0.75 2025-10-07 https://www.ziniachan.com/media-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/db76ed0d-76c3-4ecf-85d1-8a2fd6f8424a/ACNS+Logo.png Blog / News - Australasian Cognitive neuroscience Society ACNS 2025 Melbourne Conference paper presentation details coming soon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/6d1ed10a-7115-48a2-b00c-6af76a02839c/Australian+Voices+Graduate+Composers+with+Arcadia+Winds+%26+Friends+-Cyan.png Blog / News - Australian Voices: Graduate Composers with Arcadia Winds & Friends Australian Voices presents spoken words collected around Australia, curated alongside a showcase of contemporary works by Graduate uprising composers, and performed by iconic Australian ensemble and artists Arcadia Winds, Gemma Kneale, Evan Setiawan, Danae Killian and collaborating guests. Zinia Chan’s “When We Are”, features Australian voices collected as part of the MOMENTUM II Commission Award with support by the Australian Music Centre and Cinque Artist Management. Spoken words participants were asked to reflect on a series of questions on identity and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/f668584e-8659-4426-9352-1529fcc42c6e/Limelight_When+We+Are_Zinia+Chan_Australian+Music+Centre_+MONENTUM+Commission.jpeg Blog / News - LIMELIGHT: Australian Accent: September 2025 Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month. Arcadia Winds performs the works of rising Australian graduate composers in Australian Voices at the Ian Potter Southbank Centre on 24 September. On the program is the world premiere of Zinia Chan‘s When We Are, her work for the Australian Music Centre’s MOMENTUM II Commission, alongside works by Leah Blankendaal, Lewis Ingham, Sam Williams, MartinMackerras and Alon Trigger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/4830c32c-b470-4162-9526-12ca37724458/Omega+Ensemble_Limelight+Magazine_Zinia+Chan.png Blog / News - Omega Ensemble announces 2024 CoLAB Composers Katia Geha, Zinia Chan, Klearhos Murphy and Felix Wallis receive world-class mentorship to develop a new work, set to premiere in November. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/29231aa1-7cf1-4848-ab1d-0acca0bb43ba/When+We+Are+Water+-+Collaboration+%5BZinia+Chan+%2B+DeepBlue%5D+-+Square.jpg Blog / News - When We are Water - Work with Me! Register to participate in the "When We Are Water" collaborative project with me by joining us on the day and contribute what identity means to you for SWELL Sculpture Festival 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/697afb64-57ff-4130-821c-09273350976c/Apra+Amcos+Art+Music+2023+-+Finalists+-+Work+of+the+Year+-+Electroacoustic+Sound+Art+-+Gaze+Upon+the+Liquid+Sky+-+Zinia+Chan+-+Composer.jpeg Blog / News - Arts Music Awards 2023 Finalist Work of the Year - Electroacoustic / Sound Art “APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2023 Art Music Awards, to be held on Tuesday 15 August at Carriageworks, Sydney, Gadigal land.” APRA AMCOS, 12 JULY 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/a239853d-4c06-4418-8a59-a51e8002039e/2023+Arts+Music+Awards+-+Australian+Music+Centre+-+Apra+Amcos Blog / News - Art Music Awards 2023: Finalists Announced “Four finalists have been selected across eleven national categories, representing the excellence of Australian creators and practitioners as well as multi-dimensional, multi-cultural approaches and diverse perspectives within contemporary music making.” RESONATE MAGAZINE, AUSTRALIAN MUSIC CENTRE - 12 JULY 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/876fa26e-e6e2-4ba9-94b7-3e67d26dda95/CIMF-While-You-Sleep.-Photo-credit-Bryony-Jackson Blog / News - Finalists for the 2023 Art Music Awards announced “In Work of the Year in Electroacoustic/Sound Art, three out of four of the nominees are first-time recipients and early-career composers. Zinia Chan’s Gaze Upon the Liquid Sky blends field recordings and chamber music in an exploration of Australian landscapes.” LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE, 12 July 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/0671cb28-3d10-4aa8-afe7-7de026f1aa62/artshub-logo.jpeg Blog / News - Opportunities and awards: Shortlisted and finalists “Cross-cultural exchange in music is a consistent theme across the Awards finalists. Those nominated across multiple award categories include Mindy Meng Wang, Paul Dean and Aviva Endean. While emerging talent includes Emily-Rose Sarkova, Rebecca Bracewell, Liam Mulligan, Zinia Chan and Kym Alexandra Dillon.” ARTSHUB, 12 JULY 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/85684e98-6027-4171-bf4d-2f636428e4b2/Jasper-Ly-Hero-Image_640.jpg.jpg Blog / News - GLOW (Jasper Ly and Peter Dumsday) Limelight Magazine Review ★★★★ ½ “Zinia Chan’s work Gaze Upon the Liquid Sky was a stunning bookend… Chan melded the natural noises of the outside world with electronic sounds and the oboe and piano performing live. One became the other, and if you closed your eyes, you could feel the wind shifting the trees, the frogs croaking, the crickets singing out.” LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE, 18 MAY 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/1947e181-e4e2-464f-978e-c4c628a17337/Screen+Shot+2022-03-26+at+5.09.03+pm.png Blog / News - The story behind ‘Weaving of Threads’ -World Premiere SOUNDESCAPE MAGAZINE, MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE - APRIL 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/1637763456617-KRT35CGNLAA3IWM0QC5X/Zinia+Chan+Headshot.jpg Blog / News - MOMENTUM II Commission Award AUSTRALIAN MUSIC CENTRE, 20 OCTOBER 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/7b56c99b-1de0-403f-a8c6-e2c278b6a149/IMG_4930.jpeg Blog / News - Melbourne Recital Centre & Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Composition Award 2020 HONOUR BOARD, MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/1590720525185-RL4INSHG90EZQVPSYSK6/Grainger+Museum_Composers.jpg Blog / News - Stillness | Perfection - Grainger | Amplified Stillness | Perfection - Grainger | Amplified This Science Gallery Perfection exhibition satellite event presents three new compositions created by student composers at the University of Melbourne, played through a sound system in the Grainger Museum courtyard. Visitors are invited to contribute… https://www.ziniachan.com/about daily 0.75 2025-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/1682319710671-9GARCR7JSW3WEOO9PHNB/image_2.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52f2ffcee4b0cba606f25e0e/4a90b760-b989-40a8-8c9b-e69d2b17d24a/_1002760.jpeg About - Short Bio Australian Composer, Zinia Chan’s diverse and immersive work captures the connections between the natural environment and humans through recorded sounds, music notations, and extramusical artforms. In 2024, Chan was featured on the front page of The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, as well as published newspapers on an article on Synaesthesia by journalist Jackson Graham, accepted for Omega Ensemble’s CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program, concluding in a sold-out world premiere at the Sydney Opera House, and MSO’s Cybec Composer. Chan is also a Finalist of the APRA AMCOS and Australian Music Centre’s 2023 Arts Music Awards, and a recipient of The University of Melbourne’s 2023 Catherine Mary Sullivan Scholarship of Music, the 2020 Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) Composition Award, facilitating a commission for award-winning chamber ensemble, Syzygy Ensemble performed during the MRC’s Awaken 2022 season. Chan was also awarded the 2020 Australian Music Centre MOMENTUM II Commission (funded by Cinque Artist Management), a recipient of full bursary to Gondwana Composer School (as part of the Gondwana National Choral School 2018). She is the grateful recipient of COVID recovery funding from City of Melbourne (Oceanis Collective Commission, 2020). Renowned for her cutting-edge, community-minded approach, Chan’s extensive work in theatre, film and contemporary music has garnered her opportunities to work with the likes of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Song Company, Gondwana Chorale, Syzygy Ensemble, the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mohworks Films, the Grainger Museum, and Science Gallery Melbourne. In 2013, she joined DeepBlue as their resident pianist and in 2016, welcomed the ensemble's invitation to join as a committee member on the Board. Zinia Chan is currently a Master of Music (Research) composition student at The University of Melbourne (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music) under the supervision of Dr. Melody Eötvös and Prof. Elliott Gyger, and a 2022 cohort member of the Global Leaders Institute for Arts Innovation. She holds a Bachelor of Music with Distinction (Popular Music and Audio Engineering) from Queensland University of Technology, studied conducting with Mark Shiell, composition studies with Ade Vincent, and completed her Graduate Diploma in Music (Composition) at The University of Melbourne (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music) under Dr Brenton Broadstock AM and Dr Christine McCombe. 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Zinia Chan’s “When We Are”, features Australian voices collected as part of the MOMENTUM II Commission Award with support by the Australian Music Centre and Cinque Artist Management. Spoken words participants were asked to reflect on a series of questions on identity and culture.