Jinghong Zhang's artistic craftsmanship is outstanding. With meticulous attention to detail and a profound sense of thoughtfulness, Zhang is a true master of composition. His mind is astonishingly versatile, and his aesthetic sensibility is unparalleled. His musical creations are masterfully crafted with multi-layered textures that are both provocative and original. What sets Zhang apart is his comprehensive knowledge of contemporary music repertoire and his profound understanding of art, science, and literature - all of which he masterfully incorporates into his creative work. To experience Zhang's music is to witness a true virtuoso at work.
---- Panayiotis Kokoras, 2022 Guggenheim Fellow

In his multimedia solo performances, Jinghong Zhang masterfully blends sound, light, and movement to engage the audience in a transcendent ritual. Instead of dictating his own truths, he invites us to experience ancient myths on our own terms, through our senses, tapping into one collective memory bank.
---- Yevgeniy Sharlat, 2020 Guggenheim Fellow

Zhang's shows fearlessly and seamlessly blend various influences, backgrounds, genres, mediums, and disciplines, providing immersive experiences to the audience. Zhang incorporates technology to exhibit raw energy and unfiltered emotions.
---- Texu Kim, Winner of 2021 Barlow Prize

Jinghong's DMA path attests his composition quality, his inventivity, and
his energy to collaborate and grow in music. During these years, he has been developing
ambitious artistic projects involving many layers of research, from instrumental composition,
electronics music, construction of instrument permitting approach new ways of “play”, but also
involving movement/dance, imagining how to incorporate light, video, in a large view of the
concert as event.
---- Januibe Tejera, Director of UT EMMS Electronic Music Studios

Jinghong Zhang is an astounding talent whose music productively blurs the line between dance and performance. It is never clear whether the music results from the choreography of his performance or the choreography is a response to a musical motivation. But the whole creates something magical and very moving.
---- James Buhler, Author, Theories of the Soundtrack

Jinghong Zhang’s multimedia compositions blend fixed and live electronics, acoustic instruments, voice, improvisation, dance, and lighting into mesmerizing, immersive sonic and visual environments. His scores and lightings designs, too, are intricate artworks, suggesting in equal part sacred geometry and technical blueprint. Simultaneously evoking ancient ritual and a futuristic vision, Jinghong’s work folds Chinese mythology – reflected in his newly-constructed instruments, Dragon God’s Palace and Hou Yi’s Bow – into a lineage of utopian multimedia works in the western art music tradition (from Scriabin to Stockhausen to Aperghis). The intensively meditative soundscapes that emerge from this synthesis express a wholly unique inner vision and philosophy of sound. Experiencing Jinghong’s performance will transport you into a different world – a world of dilated time wherein the entire spectrum of a sound is explored in fine slices, and where the atmosphere will leave you breathless.
---- Alison Maggart, Musicologist, Arnold Endowed Fellow in the Humanities