New Jersey Symphony will present Music Director Xian Zhang conducting Mozart, Bach and Abels, with the Symphony’s principal violins, Eric Wyrick and Francine Storck, stepping up to perform Bach’s ...

where conductor Xian Zhang has been making a big impression with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since her appointment as music director in 2016. The first woman to lead the orchestra in its 102 ...

With just a few gestures, Xian Zhang began conjuring a cosmos ... Her decision to program the piece is in keeping with the conductor’s commitment to living composers and broadening perspectives ...

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 ...

Xian Zhang conductor Steven Banks saxophone Felicia Moore soprano Kelley O’Connor mezzo-soprano Issachah Savage tenor Reginald Smith Jr. baritone Montclair State University Chorale | Heather J.

The bold lettering on the New Jersey Symphony program said it all: “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Xian Zhang.” It doesn’t get much more classical than that. The Ninth is the apotheosis of the ...