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 ...

The first symphony orchestra concert I ever went to was at Tanglewood, and having been less than 6 weeks old, I don’t remember it. The first symphony orchestra concert I remember actually attending ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music ...