04. – 12. July
Berlin 2025
Yiran Zhao is a composer and performer, living in Berlin. She is music director and composer of OBLIVIA, an experimental music theater company based in Helsinki. Her works focus on various modes of expression incorporating both musical and performative elements, lighting, visual arts, and other media. With great interest in the physicality of performance, since she came to Europe she has been working extensively with the human body and other objects as compositional material. Yiran has worked with artistic groups and festivals worldwide including Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik,SPOR, Ultima, ZEIT RÄUME Basel, WIEN MODERN and many more. She received numerous grants and prestigious prizes including NOperas! 2022 and the INITIAL Grant 2021 from Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Yiran Zhao studied composition with Jia Guoping, Caspar Johannes Walter, Erik Oña and Carola Bauckholt.