The 2025/26 season marks Xian Zhang’s first as Music Director of Seattle Symphony. She will conduct ten programmes featuring canonical works by Mozart, Mahler, Gershwin and Rachmaninov, contemporary compositions by Michael Abels, Melissa Douglas, Steven Mackey,...

New Jersey Symphony have revealed their 2025/26 season, marking Xian Zhang’s 10th as Music Director. Zhang’s programme highlights include a significant Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet project in collaboration with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jesey, Strauss Ein...

A popular guest of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Xian Zhang returned for concerts on 7, 8, 9 February 2025. With repertoire including Michael Abel's Emerge, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto 1 with George Li, and Zemlinsky's The Mermaid, their performances received glowing...

A regular guest of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Xian Zhang returns for three concerts on the 5, 6 and 7 December at Marian Anderson Hall. The programme features Dvořák's Violin Concerto with violinist Gil Shaham and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6. 2024/25 marks the GRAMMY®...

Last week, Xian Zhang returned to the Boston Symphony Orchestra for three subscription concerts on the 17-19 October, conducting Mozart's Symphony 39, Chen Yi’s Landscape Impression and Schumann’s Piano Concerto, with pianist Jonathan Biss. The reviews Xian received...

Following a hugely successful debut last season conducting Madama Butterfly, Xian Zhang returns to the Metropolitan Opera in New York to conduct David McVicar’s acclaimed production of Puccini’s Tosca. The first run starring Aleksandra Kurzak opens on 25 September,...

The Seattle Symphony is pleased to announce Xian Zhang as its next Music Director, beginning a 5-year contract in the 2025/2026 season. Zhang is a long-term collaborator with the Symphony, debuting at Benaroya Hall in 2008. Zhang has a special relationship with...

Watch Xian Zhang's feature on CBS Evening News, "How conductor Xian Zhang is breaking barriers", that originally aired on 13 May, 2024

On Thursday 09 May 2024, Xian Zhang will step in to conduct the Orchestra of St Luke’s in the final concert of their 2023/24 season at Carnegie Hall. The programme promises a glorious evening of Brahms choral works, featuring Begräbnisgesang and Ein deutsches...

Xian Zhang will be Guest Conductor for the The Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM) Piano 2024 edition finals. The competition finalists will have the exceptional opportunity to perform under the baton of Xian Zhang for the Grand Final with the Orchestre...

Xian Zhang returns to The Philadelphia Orchestra to conduct music by Mozart, Piazzolla and Vivaldi on February 1, 2 and 4. On February 1, Xian conducts the orchestra and violinist David Kim for “Strings and Tango”, part of the brilliant Orchestra After 5 Thursday...

Following the hugely successful opening of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at The Metropolitan Opera New York (revival of Anthony Minghella’s production) on 11 January 2024, conductor Xian Zhang has received glowing reviews for her house debut. From New York Classical...

Juilliard has announced that they will confer an Honorary Doctorate to conductor Xian Zhang at their 2023 commencement ceremony. The ceremony will take place on 19 May at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, presided over by Juilliard President Damian Woetzel and Vincent Mai,...

Xian Zhang won the Best Classical Instrumental Solo GRAMMY® award for her poignant and evocative recording Letters for The Future with Time for Three and The Philadelphia Orchestra. The album, available on Deutsche Grammophon, also took home the Best Contemorary...