Cong Su

Cong Su (simplified Chinese: 苏聪; traditional Chinese: 蘇聰; pinyin: Sū Cōng), born in 1957 in Tianjin Province, is a Chinese composer. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and later in Germany. He taught music theory, musical analysis, film music, and ballet music at the Munic... More

Cong Su (simplified Chinese: 苏聪; traditional Chinese: 蘇聰; pinyin: Sū Cōng), born in 1957 in Tianjin Province, is a Chinese composer. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and later in Germany. He taught music theory, musical analysis, film music, and ballet music at the Munich Music School. Since 1991, he has been a professor of film and media composition at the State Film Academy in the Stuttgart region. Along with Ryūichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, Cong won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor at the 60th Academy Awards in 1987; the soundtrack album won the award for Best Original Score for a Visual Media at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989. Cong has also composed other film scores, primarily for Asian films.