Blossom Time - School of Music, 

CUHK-Shenzhen Music Season

Theory and Practice of Chinese Traditional Gongche Notation

ZHANG Boyu, male, born in 1958, is a tenured professor at the Musicology Division of the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He graduated from The Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) and received his BA in 1987 and MA in 1989. From September 1991 to July 1998, he studied at Turku University in Finland and earned his Licentiate in 1995 and PhD in 1997. He returned to China in August 1998. From November 2000 to June 2001, he conducted research at Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in New Delhi under the Asian Fellowship of Ford Foundation. From August 2005 to July 2006, he visited Wesleyan University, USA, on a Fulbright Fellowship. He served as Chair of the Musicology Department (2002-2011) and was Director of the Intangible Cultural Protection and Research Centre (2014-2019) at CCOM.

His research and publishing projects have been granted by various state-level research funds including the Musicology Institute at CCOM (one of the Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education), The National Social Science Fund of China, China National Arts Fund, The National Science and Technology Support Project in the "12th Five Year Planning", National Publishing Foundation. He has authored three research books, co-authored six others, contributed to seven book chapters (one of which was published by Oxford University Press), edited seven books, and translated six books.

He was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Humanities Faculty of Helsinki University (2011-2014) and is currently the vice-Chairman of The Association of Traditional Music in China.

He was titled as a prominent academic staff (CCOM, 2014), "Career Achievement Award for Returned Overseas"(by six ministries, 2003), and received subsidies from the State Council. His publications received the Third Prize of "The Sixth Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education"(Beijing Education Committee, 2005), the First Prize in the "Best Selections of Filial Piety Writings" organized by Youth Daily (2010), Prominent Research Achievement of the "Ninth Golden Bell Prize on Music Theory" by China Musicians Association (2013), the First Prize by Chinese University Publishers Union (2015), the Best Piece of "Woodpecker Cap" by China Literature and Arts Critics Association (2016), Second Prize of the "Prominent Scientific Research Achievements" by Ministry of Education (2019). He was selected as "one of the best theorists and critics of Chinese music" by China Nationalities Orchestra Society (2020).