Peiwen Zou
Conductor & composer
A conductor and composer working at the intersection of performance, collaboration and contemporary music.
Artistic profile
Peiwen Zou serves as Assistant Conductor of Eastman Musica Nova and Music Director of OSSIA New Music. At the Eastman School of Music, she leads rehearsals and performances, works alongside Brad Lubman, and contributes to the preparation and programming of contemporary repertoire.
Her conducting experience includes the American Modern Ensemble, Mostly Modern Orchestra, Eastman Chamber Orchestra and Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. In 2025, she conducted music by Ákos Rózmann at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo. Her 2026 activities include assistant conducting at the Orchestra of St. Luke’s DeGaetano Composition Institute and the Los Angeles Conducting Workshop and Competition.
Zou’s background includes composition studies and close collaboration with composers and performers of new music. Her work at Eastman also encompasses the Graduate Composers’ Sinfonietta and Graduate Conducting Orchestra. She has also served as Assistant Conductor of the Nanjing University Symphony Orchestra. Alongside performing, she has taught as an assistant in basic conducting and first-year aural theory.