Cheung Chau (Zou Xiang) is Director of Orchestral studies at Utah Valley University, Music Director of Sinfonietta Polonia in Poznań, Poland and Music Director of the  Utah Valley Youth Symphony in Orem, Utah.  He serves also as a permanent conductor of Changsha Symphony Orchestra in China. He served as music director of Bloomington Symphony in Minnesota, the  Central Pennsylvania Symphony and the Manchester Symphony in Connecticut and held director of orchestra positions at Haverford College and University of Connecticut.

    As guest conductor, Chau conducted the Moscow Symphony in Russia, the Nordhausen Philharmonic and Pro Artibus Hannover in Germany, the Filarmonica Marchigiana in Italy, the Gavle Symphony in Sweden, the Vaasa Symphony in Finland, the Williamsport Symphony and the Utah Chamber Orchestra in the United States, the Opera and Philharmonic in Bialystok  the Swietokrzyska Philharmonic in Kielce, the Lublin Philharmonic, the Sudecka Philharmonic and the Olsztyn Philharmonic in Poland. In China he has led the China National Symphony, the Tianjin Philharmonic, the Wuhan Philharmonic, the Xiamen Philharmonic and the Inner Mongolia Opera Theater Orchestra. He is designated permanent guest conductor of Hunan Symphony.  Invited by Edo the Waart, Chau served as assistant conductor to the Hong Kong Philharmonic, conducting the orchestra in many projects, including the 2007 live world broadcast opening ceremony of the 10th anniversary celebration of Hong Kong's Handover, with Chinese President Hu Jintao in attendance.

As a ballet conductor Chau conducted productions of Giselle and Nutcracker with the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Ballet West at the Harrisburg Whitaker Center and the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City.  He is a regular guest conductor at the Grand Opera and Ballet Theater in Poznań, Poland, where he conducted the world premiere of Alice in Wonderland to music by Gabriel Kaczmarek in 2014 and its subsequent 19 performances. Chau also led the world premiere performance of Snow Queen in March of 2016 at the Grand Theater in Poznań. In June 2016, he conducted Alice in Wonderland at the prestigious Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Poland and with the Swiętokrzyska Philharmonic in Kielce, Poland. Chau conducted the Royal Swedish Academy Opera and Georgia Southern Opera in Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte.

Chau has conducted youth orchestras including the Sibelius Academy Orchestra in Finland, the Utah All-State Orchestra and the International Association of Southeast Asian Schools Festival Orchestras in Jakarta, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.

As conductor Chau collaborated with soloists from the Berlin Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, London Philharmonia, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Colin Carr, Pierre-Ives Artaud, Adrian Levine, Maria Masycheva, Nathan Hughes, Barbara Kubiak, Barnabas Kelleman, Patrycja Piekutowska and others. He guest conducted over 20 choirs from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, the USA and China, including Cantate Carlisle and the China National Symphony Orchestra Chorus.  

As music director of Sinfonietta Polonia Chau made the world premiere recording of Palester’s String Serenade and Gabriel Kaczmarek's Mass 1050 for the leading Polish recording label Acte Preable, and directed the International Szymanowski Festival in Beijing in 2011 selected by the Polish Ministry of Culture as an official cultural event of the Polish European Union Presidency in 2011, with performances at the National Center for the Arts and the Beijing Concert Hall, leading a combined orchestra comprised of musicians from Sinfonietta Polonia and the China National Symphony Orchestra. Chau led Sinfonietta Polonia also on tours in France, Germany, performing at the Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg under auspices of the Polish Embassy in Berlin and the Stiftung fur Deutsch-Polnishe Zusammenarbeit, and in Hannover  (Grosser Sendesaal des  Landesfunkhauses), etc. Sinfonietta Polonia performances were broadcast on China Central Television and SP was featured in a cover article for the prestigious Polish classical music magazine, Muzyka 21. For the past nine years, Sinfonietta Polonia’s New Year concerts in the Greater Poland region attract thousands of audiences and have served a number of Dickinson’s students as a unique study abroad-professional orchestra experience.

Chau received the first double doctorate degree in the history of the New England Conservatory in wind ensemble conducting and cello studying with Frank Battisti and Colin Carr.  He studied orchestral and choral conducting at the Royal Swedish Conservatory with Jorma Panula.  His other main teachers include cellists Aldo Parisot and Eleonore Schoenfeld. As cellist Chau performed as soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Macao Orchestra, among others, in chamber music and solo recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Beijing Concert Hall, Merkin Hall and Jordan Hall, recorded for Acte Preable as member of Atma Trio, and recorded for Hong Kong Radio and Television corporation, China Central Television, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, and Irish Radio. He is a National Arts Associate member in conducting with Sigma Alpha Iota.