The ongoing Wuxia C-drama Joy of Life Season 2, starring Zhang Ruoyun and Li Qin, released episode 22 on May 26, 2024. The episode primarily focuses on Fan Xian (Zhang Ruoyun) interrogating Chancellor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Xian Zhang is on a roll of late — and she gained new momentum this past week. The New Jersey Symphony’s music director, in her eighth season leading the orchestra, had been preparing to make her ...

Xian Zhang, Seattle Symphony's new music director, leads a rehearsal of the orchestra Friday morning at Benaroya Hall. She is the first woman and person of color to hold that position in Seattle ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Symphony Board of Directors selected Xian Zhang to lead the symphony as its first female music director. Zhang has been involved with the Seattle Symphony since 2008, where she ...

New Jersey Symphony will present its Season Finale concerts with Music Director Xian Zhang conducting Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Pianist Conrad Tao performs Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, ...

She’s known for breaking barriers in the music world. Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra ...

This image released by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra shows Xian Zhang, center, during a pre-concert performance at Benaroya Hall in Seattle on April 4, 2024. (Carlin Ma/Seattle Symphony Orchestra via ...

After a nearly three-year search, Seattle Symphony announced Thursday its next music director: Xian Zhang, who will become the first woman music director in the company’s 121-year history. Zhang, who ...