Biography

Zhang Dawei, the forerunner of Chinese electronic music. When he was young, he had been working for a big performance troupe "the Orient Music and Dance Group" as pianist, keyboardist, then composer and music director, before making the album "E Ma O".

Under the name "E Ma O", as the pianist/keyboardist/composer, Zhang Dawei explores modern dance music from the Western part of the world and elements from Tibetan music

-- Billboard International,1999.

The album was released in Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Taiwan, Hongkong and Mainland of China. Dawei is also a composer of TV and film scores and an Chinese award winning composer for Documentary film music.

 

Discography & Filmography

2011   TV documentary "The Inspiration from Shanbei"
2010   TV documentary "The Power of Enterprises"
2009   TV documentary "Da Qinling(The Great Qinling Mountain)"
2008   TV series "Hongguanyao"
  movie "Tongxin"
  TV documentary "The Famen Monastery"
  TV documentary "5,000 Years of Chinese Characters"
2007   movie "This Life, This Love"
  TV Series "Our Marriage"
  Puyi - The Last Emperor of China (music for 4 episodes documentary), composer Finalist Award Winner of 2009 New York Festivals International TV programming and promotion
2006   movie "Fairy Tale of Water and Rain", Chinese Colleger Movie Festival Award Winner
2005   movie "Comrade Son", Shanghai Movie Festival Award Winner
  TV Documentary "The Waves of Huanghe River"
  CD "eMAo" played at Sweden Modern Arts Museum
2003   Jinshang (music for 6 episodes documentary), CCTV
2002   Tonggu (movie), CCTV
2000   Huangheren (6 episodes documentary), CCTV
1999   Tangzhiyun (20 episodes documetary), CCTV
   

Album "eMAo", started since 1996, released in 1999, distributed in Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Taiwan, Hongkong. And released in China Mainland 2003.

1998   5000 Years of China (20 episodes documetary), Ningxia TV
1998   Zhonghua Taishan (4 episodes documentary), Shandong TV
1995   Collection album "Xiang Yan", Top Music, Hongkong
    Zhu Bieshu de Nvren (19 episodes TV series)
    Ai Shui Shi Shui (20 episodes TV series)
    Jingcheng Biaoju (20 episodes TV series)
1994   Xue Yu (Snow Zone, 4 episodes documentary, Ningxia TV & Beijing Cultural AV
    Tsuchen Tempa and Tolin Monastery, Ningxia TV & Beijing Cultural AV, winned "China Best Original Music for Documentary Video", 1995
1993   Arranger and keyboardist of Zhao Jiping's Concert, performanced in Tokyo
1992   Zouchu Guanzhong, documentary, Shanxi TV
1991   Guicheng, documentary, Sichuan TV
1991   Album "Electric Mountain", EMI
1988   Zhufu, Music for the Dance Show of the Orient Music and Dance Group
    Feizhou Wudao Yinxiang, Music for the Dance Show of the Orient Music and Dance Group


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