Composer Yike Zhang is active in Toronto and New York. In 2024, Zhang received her Doctor of Music Arts degree from the University of Toronto, where she was composer in
residence for the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She also received degrees from the Manhattan School of Music (MM) and Wuhan Conservatory of Music (BM). Her music
synthesizes the different worlds she was interested in from a young age — Western classical music and traditional Chinese concepts — organically combining those elements consciously
and subconsciously. Her works have been performed throughout China, the U.S., and Canada, with recent performances at the Asian Classical Music Initiative International Conference
(2023), the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2023), and Wuhan Qintai Concert Hall (2024). Dr. Zhang was honored with a full-length concert entirely of her work
at Columbia University (2023). In 2025, she was Artist-in-Residence at Arts Letters & Numbers and had her work featured at the MISE-EN Festival.