Ling Zhang

Ling Zhang (b. 1998 in Chengdu) is a Chinese percussionist who began his musical development at a young age. In 2011 he entered the Secondary Music School affiliated with the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Hanyin Mo. From 2017 to 2021 he studied with Ulrike Stadler at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, graduating with a bachelor's degree. In 2021 he moved to Germany to pursue his master's degree with Johannes Fischer at the Lübeck Academy of Music. Ling's repertoire spans a wide range of genres, from jazz to experimental contemporary concepts.
He performs with groups such as Ensemble Recherche, the Duisburg Philharmonic and Studio Musikfabrik, and has appeared at numerous music and contemporary-art festivals, including the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria, the Eigenzeit Festival for Contemporary Music in Duisburg, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Frequenz Festival for Sound Art in Kiel and the PGVIS International Symposium on Music and Interdisciplinary Studies in Bangkok, Thailand. He enjoys collaborating and improvising with musicians and artists across various forms and disciplines. In his free time Ling is a passionate photographer, especially of abstract images, and is interested in regional social-anthropological research in the Chinese context.
Ling Zhang's scholarship is supported by funds from the GVL, the Crespo Foundation and others.