Dong Zhou was born in 1992 in Shanghai. Although from her great grandfather, all generations of her family play traditional Chinese Sizhu Music, she learnt piano from 3 and violin from 9 and played in orchestra from 12. She gained her B. A. in electroacoustic music composition in Shanghai conservatory and M.A. in multimedia composition in Hamburg University of Music and Drama and names Qiangbin Chen, Yi Qin, Georg Hajdu and Elmar Lampson as her most significant former mentors. As a composer and multimedia artist, she always tries to create different spaces and layers of sound and combine different languages of art to fully express her point of view and imagination.