New Jersey’s new music director takes a third job
mainNo sooner was Xian Zhang announced as music director of the New Jersey Symphony than she’s being paraded as principal guest conductor with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Xian, 42, is already chief conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, where she lives.
Sounds like she’s got an agent who just can’t say No.
The BBC are saying she is ‘the first woman to be appointed to lead one of the BBC’s orchestras’ and the Guardian has absurdly headlined this as ‘making conducting history’.
At this rate she’ll be the first Chinese woman conductor to burn out in the West.
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