Xian zhang conductor biography of rory

  • Xian Zhang (Chinese: 张弦; born 1973) is a Chinese-Americanconductor.
  • Born in China, Zhang started playing piano at 3 but at 16 was told by a teacher that her hands were too small.
  • At the age of seventeen he began his studies in orchestral conducting with maestro José Antonio Abreu.

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    Xian zhang conductor biography of rory

    Chinese-American conductor

    In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

    Xian Zhang (Chinese: 张弦; born 1973) is a Chinese-Americanconductor.

    Biography

    Born in Dandong, Liaoning, China, to musician parents,[1] Zhang began to learn music as a child with her mother on a piano built by her father.[2][3] She continued her music studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees.

    Her first conducting appearance was at age 19 with the China National Opera Orchestra in a production of The Marriage of Figaro.[4]

    Zhang moved to the United States in 1998.[5] She studied for her doctorate in music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and for four years was the music director of the university's orchestra.

    In 2002, she shared the first prize of the first Maazel-Vilar Conductor's Competition. She was a cov

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    Award Winners

    There will be a 15-performance run of his chamber opera, The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak, written in collaboration with his brother Tobi Poster and presented by Wattle & Daub, featuring a multi-talented cast of two singers, two instrumentalists and two puppeteers (of which Tobi is one), who operate over 20 puppets of all shapes and sizes. There will also be two performances at The North Wall, Oxford on 8th March - 9th March.


    The opera is based on the true story of Tarrare, an 18th-century French revolutionary spy and circus freak with an insatiable appetite for live cats, snakes, and the occasional amputated limb!

     

    Tom has also been invited to programme and perform in three concerts at Wilton's Hall, drawing on themes from the opera:


    7.30pm, Thursday 2nd February

    FRENCH CONNECTIONS

    Mark Simpson (clarinet), Elena Urioste (violin),

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Tom Poster (piano)

    Ravel, Debussy & Messiaen


    7.30pm, Thursday 9th F

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    A lesser-known Bach

    Over the span of two centuries, the Bach family produced more than 50 musicians and composers. On Friday's Performance Today, we have music by Bach -- but not the guy who immediately comes to mind when you hear that name. We'll travel to Denmark to hear an overture bygd Johann Bernhard Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's lesser-known second cousin.

    Episode Playlist

    Hour 1

    Joseph Haydn: Quartet No. 27 in D Major, Op. 20: 4. Presto
    Mendelssohn String Quartet
    MPR 203

    Pierre Attaingnant: Six Dances
    VIDA Guitar Quartet: Chris Stell, Mark Eden, Amanda Cook, Mark Ashford, guitars
    Spivey entré, Morrow, GA

    Johann Bernhard Bach: Overture in G minor, for violin, strings and basso continuo
    Fredrik From, violin; Concerto Copenhagen; Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor
    Garrison Church, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in c minor, Hob.I:95
    New York Philharmonic; Xian Zhang, conductor
    Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

    Hour 2

    Rober