Zhu xiao mei biography of michael

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ZHU Xiao-Mei occupies a place all her own in today’s musical world. Deliberately keeping her concerts few and far between, she appears in public only to perform especially demanding works, “mountains of the soul” which she judges essential, in interpretations matured over a long period of gestation, taking music to the most varied audiences in places that appeal to her and where she enjoys playing.

But though she is nowadays the guest of the leading concert halls and the most prestigious festivals, from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris to the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, from the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron to the Schleswig Holstein Festival, though she plays with some of the most renowned orchestras like the English Chamber Orchestra, the Sinfonia Varsovia, …and gives concerts everywhere in Europe, in Asia and in America, her career very nearly never took place at all.

Born in Shanghai, introduced to music by her mother at a very early age, she was already app