Bio
Eric Zheng (he/him) is a PhD student in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. Prior to Michigan, Eric earned a BM in Saxophone Performance and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University. He then completed an MM in Saxophone Performance at Michigan State University and undertook fellowship at Bard’s U.S.-China Music Institute where he experimented with the saxophone in Chinese music and studied the suona. He is currently interested in transnationalism and timbre as connections to race and identity in the music of Asian American jazz and contemporary classical Chinese communities.
Updated on: 9/5/2024