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 ...

2024–25 marks the GRAMMY and Emmy Award-winning conductor Xian Zhang’s ninth season as music director of the New Jersey Symphony. Starting in 2025–26, Zhang will also hold the role of music ...

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 ...

They promised something old and classic, but brought something new and exciting as well. The bold lettering on the New Jersey Symphony program said it all: “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Xian Zhang.

With just a few gestures, Xian Zhang began conjuring a cosmos. Returning to Benaroya Hall for her first full program since being named Seattle Symphony’s incoming music director, Zhang drew the ...