Album Notes

Xiang Zou was the youngest pianist ever to become First Laureate of the Honens International Piano Competition (2003). He has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout North America, Europe, and his native China. He is an artist of the highest sensitivity, imagination and focus, combining consummate musicality with fiery enthusiasm.

A native of Hunan China, Zou studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at The Juilliard School for his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, and for his Artist Diploma in Performance. His principal teachers have been Jerome Lowenthal, Robert McDonald and Xiaosheng Zhao, and, in chamber performance, Joseph Kalichstein and Seymour Lipkin.

In 2005, Xiang Zou founded the New Asian Ensemble at Juilliard, an organization dedicated to introducing contemporary Asian music to Western culture, and Western contemporary music to Asian audiences. He now teaches at the Central Conservatory in Beijing.