Conductor Xian Zhang made her guest debut leading the New York Metropolitan Opera earlier this year, becoming one of the first Asian American women to lead the prestigious ensemble. Nancy Chen shares ...

Xian Zhang led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a program that featured concertmaster Jonathan Carney, left, performing Glasunov's “Violin Concerto” at Strathmore on Thursday. - (Michael ...

Xian Zhang, center, on April 4 during a pre-concert performance at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. (Carlin Ma/Seattle Symphony Orchestra) Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle ...

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SEATTLE — Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since ...

Conductor Xian Zhang reminds me of that torrential tempest that blew through the Twin Cities on Wednesday night. Throwing her whole body into leading an orchestra, she's a relentless mass of movement, ...

A complete list of concerts and information on tickets: njsymphony.org/events. 2024–25 marks the GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning conductor Xian Zhang's ninth season ...

The two masterpieces on the current Seattle Symphony program would be enough to attract any music lover: Beethoven’s great (and only) Violin Concerto, and Prokofiev’s fiery Fifth Symphony. When the ...

Atop the Benaroya Hall podium Saturday night, Xian Zhang took fate into her own hands, as the Grammy- and Emmy-winning conductor began her tenure as Seattle Symphony’s new music director by conducting ...

Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since Thomas ...