Biography



Born in 1987 in Fuzhou, China, Bin Li is an emerging composer living in the United States. Having grown up in the new generation of China and immigrated to America in 2007, his music marks influences of his experiences with the Eastern and Western traditions, post-modern arts, new technological trends and the popular culture.

Bin has received awards from International Society of Bassists David Walter Composition Competition, Migratory Journeys International Composition Competition and Recital Music Composition Competition. His music has been performed in different festivals and venues such as SoundCrawl, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, Jiuritai Concert Hall, the Bishop Nightclub, Jacobs School of Music and Eastman School of Music. His commissioned pieces include “Lake 1B11” for bassist James Sullivan and “The Lost Temple” for hornist Zach Glavan. In addition, Bin has collaborated with choreographers, dancers, directors and film makers for multimedia productions.

Bin is a senior majoring in composition at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. He is currently studying under David Dzubay, P.Q Phan and Jeffrey Hass (Electronic). His past composition instructors included Claude Baker, John Gibson (Electronic), Aaron Travers (Orchestration), Jonathan Sokol, Frank Felice, Micheal Drews (Electronic) and Zurong Guo; his past piano instructors included Evelyn Brancart, Edward Moy and Feibi Song.

In addition to his music activities, Bin is also pursuing a bachelor degree in business majoring in accounting and finance at Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is a qualified CPA candidate and has interned at Crowe Horwath LLP as a public auditor and financial consultant. At Kelley School, he is a platinum member of the Student Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi. He has received scholarships sponsored by KPMG and McKinsey&Company.  For Bin's business resume, click here
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