Leilei Tian was born in 1971 in China. She began to study piano at the age of six. From 1988 to 1995, she studied composition with Zhenmin Xu in Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and got her Master's Degree. In 1997, she went to Sweden to study with Ole Lützow-Holm in the Conservatory of Music in Gothenburg and got her postgraduate diploma in 2001.

Meanwhile she participated several master classes in Europe such as Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt (Germany), “Voix Nouvelles” at Royaumont (France), Workshop at Centre Acanthes (France), International Young Composers meeting in Apeldoorn (Netherlands), “Avantgarde Schwaz” International Academy for New Composition and Audio-Art (Austria), where she had opportunity to study with worldly well-known composers and professors such as Louis Andriessen, Brian Ferneyhough, Gerard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino and Boguslaw Schaeffer.

From 2002 to 2003 she attended the one-year professional training for electro-acoustic music in IRCAM (Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination at Centre Pompidou) in Paris and studied with Philippe Leroux, Jonathan Harvey, Tristan Murail, Brian Ferneyhough and Philippe Manoury. Since then she has been living in Paris.

Being highly creative and productive, she composed more than 50 works and regularly receives commissions by leading music institutions, festivals and ensembles.

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