About the Composer

Margin Tianya Zheng | 郑天涯 is a performer-composer, interdisciplinary artist, maths-lover, and educator striving for justice, community, and joy.  As a performer of keyboard instruments (piano, harpsichord, toy piano), they are passionate about both experimental contemporary music and historically informed performance.  This year, Margin performed their autobiographical solo work fluxing, quivering, transforming, a fusion of contemporary classical piano and performance art, at New Music Gathering in Portland, Oregon.  In June they were a Composition Fellow at Nief-Norf Summer Festival, where freeing child was premiered.  They are also an alum of Wildflower Composers Festival, where they composed when pneum is named, a solo bassoon work that uses a video score.  Mildly quaint, massively quirky, and madly queer, Margin is a proud owner of emotional support stuffed animals and high-fidelity earplugs.  They graduated from Haverford College in May 2023 with a BA in music and in mathematics.