Time
8 p.m., July 5
Tickets
114.061866,22.547607
Venue
Shenzhen Concert Hall, intersection of Hongli Road and Yitian Road, Futian District (福田区红荔路和益田路交汇处深圳音乐厅)
Metro
Line 3 or 4 to Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit D
Zuo Zhang returns to play Liszt concerto| July 5
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Shenzhen-born pianist Zuo Zhang will collaborate with Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra to play Liszt’s “Piano Concerto No. 2.” The orchestra will also present Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” and Schubert’s “Symphony No. 9.”
Zuo studied at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music under the mentorship of Nelita True for her bachelor’s degree. Later, she completed her master’s degree at The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinsky. In 2014, she was selected to join BBC’s flagship “New Generation Artist” program in Britain for two seasons.
Zuo’s playing has been described as “full of enthusiasm and glamour, radiating the vigor of youth” by Chinese Gramophone, and her creative maturity has been hailed as “a powerful, passionate and compelling representation of pure artistry” by the Los Angeles Times.
She has performed with many world-renowned orchestras in China and abroad, and has won many awards, including first prizes in the American Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition (2000), the Ukraine Krainev International Piano Competition for Young Pianists (2002) and the seventh International Franz Liszt Piano Competition (2005), the youngest laureate in the 2010 Gina Bachauer Artists Piano Competition as well as the fifth prize at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels.
In Spring 2019, Universal released her first album, featuring Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in G Major” and Liszt’s “Piano Concerto No. 1” with Paavo Jarvi and the Philharmonia Orchestra. A passionate chamber musician, Zuo also regularly performs with the Z.E.N. Trio, alongside violinist Esther Yoo and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan. The trio’s next tour will take place in October.
Time: 8 p.m., July 5
Tickets: 50-880 yuan
Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall, intersection of Hongli Road and Yitian Road, Futian District (福田区红荔路和益田路交汇处深圳音乐厅)
Metro: Line 3 or 4 to Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit D