(Photo credit to Franz Tee)

Tee Xiao Xi  郑晓曦

Tee XiaoXi is a Malaysian-born and Seremban-raised composer whose works have been performed extensively throughout Asia and Europe. In previous years, her works were selected (some commissioned), and performed in ZKM Next Generation 8.0 Electronic Music Festival in 2019 (Germany), Connecting the Northern Dots Electronic Music Festival 2019 (Germany), Darmstadt International Summer Course 2018 in Germany (with full sponsorship from Goethe Institut Malaysia), “Risuonanze 2017 - incontri di nuove musiche” Festival (Italy), Damansara Performing Arts Centre Arts Festival and Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival 2016 (Malaysia), Asian Composers League Festival in 2015 (Philippines), SoundBridge Contemporary Music Festival Malaysia (from 2015 to 2021), 7th Shanghai Conservatory of Music New Music Festival (China), and Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival (Indonesia) in 2014. Performances of her works involved the Ensemble Mosaik and Ensemble Scenatet with conductors Enno Poppe and Rei Munakata, respectively, as well as Sirius Quartet, Beat Percussion Group, Indian dance master Datuk Ramli Ibrahim, choreographer Wong Jyh Shyong, and many more.

 
Tee graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Arts under the tutelage of Tan Chin Ho in composition and Lean Hin Chong in piano performance. She continued her composition studies with Yii Kah Hoe and subsequently obtained her bachelor’s degree in music studies from York St. John University, the UK. Her Master of Music in Composition soon followed, which was attained from The University of Music Lübeck, Germany (Musikhochschule Lübeck) under the tutelage of Professor Dieter Mack and with the support of Stipend by Förderergesellschaft. During her studies in Germany, she took up electronic music learning with Donny Karsadi and Martin von Frantzius. In 2020, Tee received a full scholarship from the China Scholarship Council to further her Doctor of Philosophy in music composition with Professor Wen Deqing in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. 
 
In addition to this, She was one of the finalists in the Young Composer Competition in Southeast Asia held by Goethe Institute in 2013. Before bagging the excellence award in the <2017 China-ASEAN piano composition competition>, she was previously the third prize winner of the <2014 China-ASEAN arts song composition competition> in Nanning, Guangxi. In 2018, she was selected in the Invisible Inaudible Workshop with Christina Kubisch and received a full sponsorship from Goethe-Institut Malaysia to participate in the ‘Darmstadt International Summer Course 2018’. Tee’s works are mainly influenced by Buddhism mantra, humanism, philosophy, and Asian cultures. To date, she has attended various masterclasses and workshops helmed by renowned composers, including Tristan Murail, Brian Ferneyhough, Liza Lim, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Michael Finnissy, Annette Schlünz, Katharina Rosenberger, Christina Kubisch, Michael Maierhof, Isabel Mundry, Gordon Kampe, Aaron Cassidy, Chris Cree Brown, Atac Sezer, Koji Nakano, William Blank, Bruno Mantovani, Chong KeeYong, and Hoh Chung-Shih.