Xingzimin Pan
Xingzimin Pan is a Chinese composer based in Canada and China. He writes contemporary choral music with refined harmonies and sensitivity to poetry, and is chief editor of Temperament Music.
Biography
Xingzimin Pan is a Chinese composer based in Canada and China, whose choral music combines refined harmonies with a sensitive response to poetry and language. His works are performed internationally and published by Schott Music and other publishers. His widely sung Dandelion has introduced choirs around the world to Mandarin repertoire. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of Utah and is chief editor of the specialist choral publisher Temperament Music.
He has collaborated with ensembles including Youth Choir ‘Kamēr…’, The Princeton Singers, Sydney Chamber Choir, Vox Venti, Stare at the Sun and the Ontario Youth Choir. His honours include awards from the IFCM International Choral Composition Competition, The American Prize, the RED NOTE Composition Competition, the ICC Jack & Anne Barnard Award, the Diane Loomer Award, the Podium ‘Choirs’ Selected Composer’ Award and the China National Arts Fund.
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In 2023 he was invited to the ACDA–Lehigh University Choral Composers Forum, and in 2024 his music featured in concerts and workshops at the World Choir Games in Auckland. In 2026 he was a guest lecturer and jury member at the Hong Kong World Choir Festival. Dandelion was published in 2016.
Pan was previously an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen School of Music and an associate research professor at South China Normal University. He is now based in Canada and China, working as chief editor of Temperament Music and writing commissions.