Robert Zollitsch (born in 1966 in Munich, Germany) is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He grew up with the Folk music of his home region, Munich, Germany, learning early in his childhood a classical Bavarian folk music instrument, the Bavarian zither. From 1986 to 1990 he studied music theory and graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. In 1993, he was awarded a scholarship to study Chinese traditional music and the Chinese zither Guqin in Shanghai.Today, Robert Zollitsch is one of the leading composers of contemporary Chinese art music.