Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his first opera, Madame White Snake, Dr. Zhou has been a two-time recipient of commissions from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2015, Zhou Long was nominated for a Grammy Award.