Weiwei Jin

 
Weiwei Jin is a Chinese-Swedish composer, sound/multimedia artist, producer and pianist who creates works across the genres of concert music, audio-visual installation, film, animation, contemporary dance and theatre. Influenced by her journeys across several cultures, she often crafts her ideas by using decontextualized cultural elements. Her music has been performed and presented across Europe, Asia, North and South America, including Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Hyphen Hub Salon (New York), IN-SONORA Festival (Spain), Sounds of Stockholm Festival (Sweden), femMESS Festival (Peru), Shanghai Spring International Music Festival (China); NIME, ICMC and SMC conferences; and in venues like The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), The Stockholm Concert Hall, The Shanghai Concert Hall; as well as broadcasted by Swedish National Radio, Swedish National TV, Peruvian National Radio and Radio of Shanghai.

Weiwei has collaborated with a variety of international artists, groups and organisations including London Sinfonietta (UK); Sarah Nicolls (UK); Lore Lixenberg (UK); Sound and Music (UK); Dirty Electronics (John Richards, UK); ACM ensemble (UK); Margaret Schedel (USA); Harvestworks (New York); dancer Karin Elmore (France); Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra (Sweden); Hägerstens Chamber Choir (Stockholm), Swedish Wind Ensemble, Sichuan percussion Group (China) and Microsoft Design. In 2015, She was awarded Artists' International Development Fund from the Arts Council England and British Council. She received project funding from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee to collaborate with solo bassoonist Sebastian Stevensson (Münchner Philharmoniker) in 2013. Her chamber opera: "Sterna Paradisaea, Returning…" was recorded and released by NMC Recordings (UK) and was nominated for Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award 2015 (long-list).