Xingzimin PAN is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and an executive council member of the Guangdong Chorus Association. He holds a Ph.D. in Composition from the University of Utah, where he served as the president of the Utah Composers Collective.

Xingzimin PAN’s music has been performed in famous concert halls in the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, Greece, Malta, South Africa, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland, Australia, Singapore, South Korea, and China, including Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Chicago Cultural Center, Goldener Saal Wiener Musikvereins, Yong Siew Toh Concert Hall, China National Centre for the Performing Arts, etc. He is the recipient of awards from the International Federation of Choral Music Composition Competition, the American Prize, the RED NOTE Composition Competition, Musica Prospettiva Call for Scores, Leonardo Da Vinci International Choral Composition Competition, the Flute New Music Consortium Composition Contest, and China-ASEAN Music Week Composition Competition.

As an active choral composer, PAN’s choral music focuses on the conveying of different harmonic images and subtle emotional experiences of humans. He has collaborated with Princeton Singers, the Sydney Chamber Choir, the University of Toronto Women’s Choir, the Western University Chorale, the University of Canterbury (NZ) Chamber Choir, The Oriana Consort, North Carolina University Choir, Gdansk University Choir, CU Chorus, among other international choirs. His choral works are published by Fudan University Press, Guangdong Education Publishing House, and Schott Music. In 2023, as the only composer from China, PAN was invited to participate in the ACDA-Lehigh University Choral Composers Forum hosted by Steven Sametz and Ēriks Ešenvalds.

PAN’s instrumental music aims to explore new timbre and notation. His Kaidan for flute and piano is frequently performed in festivals and concerts globally, including New Music Chicago Concert, Slovenia Composers Concert, Romania International Music Week, Kalamata International Music Festival, etc. The work is now listed in the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz library catalog.