Huang Zhun
Chinese composer and mezzo Huang Zhun was born in Huangyan, Zhejiang on 25 June 1926. She studied at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and studied composition with Xian Xinghai.
At the start of her career, she performed as a mezzo and later worked in the Dalian Art Work Group, the Northeast Film Studio and the Beijing Film Studio. From 1949 until 1987 worked at Shanghai Film Studio, first as a composer and then as a music director.
She composed music for over forty films, including Long Live Youth, Red Detachment of Women (1960), Strange Marriage (1981) and Deal Under the Noose (1985). As a member of the Chinese Communist Party, many of these were propaganda films. She also wrote music for stage plays, TV series and many songs, including 'The Army Loves the People, The People Love the Army' (1948), which became very popular in northeast China, 'The Fishing Kittens', which won the National Children's Song Award and 'Song of Women Soldiers'.
Huang Zhun died in Shanghai Huadong Hospital on 3 December 2024, aged ninety-eight.