Ming Tsao is Professor of Composition at Göteborg University in Sweden and holds a PhD in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego, an MA in Mathematics from the San Francisco State University, an MA in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University and a BM in Music Composition from the Berklee College of Music. Further studies have included logic and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley as well as being an Invited Scholar in Music Composition at Stanford University. Tsao’s principal composition teachers have been Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough and Mario Davidovsky.
Performance projects include the upcoming opera «Die Geisterinsel» for the Staatsoper Stuttgart. His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, ensemble recherche, ELISION Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, Ensemble Ascolta in venues such as the Donaueschingen Festival, Wien Modern, Wittener Tage Festival, Maerz Musik Festival, Darmstadt New Music Courses.
Music by Ming Tsao can be found on upcoming CD releases on Mode Records with performances by the Arditti Quartet, ensemble recherche, Ensemble SurPlus and Ensemble Ascolta. His articles can be found in the new music journal Musik & Aesthetik and the Search Journal for New Music and Culture. Books by Ming Tsao include Abstract Musical Intervals: Group Theory for Composition and Analysis.