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“I want to be an ambassador and communicator of classical music, and music in general. Because there is such a profundity, beauty, and joy in music-making. I see that as at the most important elements for me personally.”

Please check out "Zhu Wang: Capturing the Audience's Heart" which was released October 2022. I talked how I started learning piano and what music means to me. You will hear my performance of Réminiscences de Norma by Liszt, as well as music by underrepresented voices: Adoration by Florence Price and Concerto in C Minor by Helen Eugenia Hagan with Michelle Cann.

Program:

Robert Schumann: "Widmung" from Myrthen song cycle, Op. 25 [Trans.]

Robert Schumann: Humoresque in B-flat Major, Op. 20 [Sel.]

Louis Gottschalk: Union, Op. 48

Florence Price: Adoration

Franz Liszt: Réminiscences de Norma de Bellini

Orchestra: Denver Young Artists Orchestra

Conductor: Wes Kenney

Concert Date: September 25th, 2022

“The term vocalise refers to a song without words. In this premiere, she adapted that concept to the piano. This ruminative 12-minute score begins and ends with an elegiac melody, inspired by Hindustani musical styles. There are stretches of thick, tart block chords, searching lyrical lines, mysterious washes of sound and delicate strands, brought together compellingly in Zhu’s account.” (Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times)

Discover the personality of me with this interview by the Clara Haskil Foundation.

I have always felt the responsibility to featuring piano music by Chinese composers, not because it’s my own background, but I genuinely feel very rooted and proud of my upbringing and culture! This dream came true last November when I played “Pi Huang: Moments from Beijing Opera” as part of my program at Zankel hall, and it has been an essential piece of my program throughout this year. Zhang Zhao wrote this piece in 2006, he took lots of artistic elements from Beijing Opera, the singing, reciting, acting, even martial art and acrobatics, and integrated beautifully with western compositional transitions.