Tan Dun
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Emerging from a Hunan village during the Cultural Revolution, he received formal training at the Central Conservatory of Music before earning a doctorate at Columbia University and establishing his base in New York City. His early works blended Chinese ritual sounds with Western avant-garde influences, leading to the opera Marco Polo, which secured the Grawemeyer Award, and to a series of film sco…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources