Hu Xiaoou was born in 1976. He studied piano at the age of six; at the age of 18, he was admitted to the Composition Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music with first place and studied with Professor Ao Changqun. Hu Xiaoou created a large number of works of different genres and styles while he was in school. The folk music octet [Party Fu] composed while in school won the prize in the 1999 Changfeng Ensemble International Chinese National Instrumental Composition Competition in New York, USA. In 2000, Hu Xiaoou graduated with honors and stayed as a teacher in the composition department. In 2001, his string quartet [Moses No. 1] won the Excellence Award in the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Competition that year. In 2002, Hu Xiaoou was admitted to the Composition Department of the University of Missouri-Kansas with excellent results, where he studied under internationally renowned composers Zhou Long, Chen Yi and his wife, James Mobberley and electronic music expert Paul Rudy. During school, he composed for the University of Missouri-Kansas, USA. Department of Ph.D. candidate, teaching assistant. In 2010, he graduated with perfect honors and received his doctorate. Hu Xiaoou was born in 1976. He studied piano at the age of six; at the age of 18, he was admitted to the Composition Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music with first place and studied with Professor Ao Changqun. Hu Xiaoou created a large number of works of different genres and styles while he was in school. The folk music octet [Party Fu] composed while in school won the prize in the 1999 Changfeng Ensemble International Chinese National Instrumental Composition Competition in New York, USA. In 2000, Hu Xiaoou graduated with honors and stayed as a teacher in the composition department. In 2001, his string quartet [Moses No. 1] won the Excellence Award in the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Competition that year. In 2002, Hu Xiaoou was admitted to the Composition Department of the University of Missouri-Kansas with excellent results, where he studied under internationally renowned composers Zhou Long, Chen Yi and his wife, James Mobberley and electronic music expert Paul Rudy. During school, he composed for the University of Missouri-Kansas, USA. Department of Ph.D. candidate, teaching assistant. In 2010, he graduated with perfect honors and received his doctorate.
In 2003, he was invited by the Sino-US Cultural Exchange Center Arts Festival at Bard College in New York to attend the "Eight Chinese Composers Under 30 Years Old" special concert; Hu Xiaoou's [More No. 2: Composed for String Quartet] won first place in the Tang String Quartet (T'ANGQUARTET) UMKC 2003-2004 Annual Chamber Music Composition Competition, and premiered in the United States and Singapore; composed for the Chengdu International Modern Music Festival in 2003 The Septet [Kekexili] was premiered by the Swiss New Music Ensemble. In 2004, he won the American SCI/ASCAP Midwest Composition Award and was invited to the Cincinnati 2004 Music Festival. Here he studied under the famous Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho; in the summer of 2004, Hu Xiaoou won the The 60th Composers Conference (The Composers Conference) in the United States has a full composition research fund for the Mario Davidovsky Music Festival, including the Christopher and Stephen Kerske Composition Fund Award. In 2006, Hu Xiaoou was selected as the 2006 Commissioned Composer by MTNA/MMTA (Musicians Teachers Association of America, Missouri Musicians Teachers Association) and won the Commissioned Composition Award of the year; at the same time, Hu Xiaoou also won the California Summer Music (CSM) Irving Cesa Fully Funded Composition Award; his new work [Magic Century - Composed for Bayan and Three Accordions] won the 2006 Morton Gould World Young Composer Composition Award (ASCAP) from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Composition Competition Prize), this work also won the Chinese New Work Award in the 2006 Shanghai Spring International Accordion Composition Competition.
In the summer of 2006, he was once again selected for the Davydovsky Music Festival with three outstanding works, and once again won the full composition fund award; his "Audiophantasia - composed for vocals and chamber orchestra" composed for the festival premiered at Wellesley College in Boston; in the same year, his large-scale orchestral work "Mogao Qun Shen Hui" won the Outstanding Work Award in the first American Fox Harmonic International Orchestral Composition Competition; "Audiohallucination II" composed for a sixteen-piece orchestra won the DSCH It won the Outstanding Work Award in the Shostakovich International Composition Competition and premiered on November 14, 2006 at the "Moscow Autumn" International Modern Music Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Shostakovich's birth and the award-winning concert. The work "Soul - Composed for Piano Four Hands" won the 2006 Sheffield Outstanding Composer Award for Outstanding Works in the United States, and the large-scale chamber music "Audiohalla III" won the Excellence Award in Taiwan's Xu Changhui International Composition Competition. Hu Xiaoou was recently invited as a special composer to participate in the Thailand International Composers Music Festival celebrating the 80th birthday of the King of Thailand, and accepted a commission to create a new work for the world-famous New York New Ensemble. The work will be held in 2008 World premieres in New York and Bangkok. In 2007, Hu Xiaoou won the only composition award at the George Enescu Biennial International Music Festival in Europe. The award-winning work "Audiohallucination No. 3 - The Sound of Meditation" premiered at the Athens Concert Hall in Bucharest in 2009.