A week before the Seattle Symphony’s first-ever Lunar New Year gala, the Symphony’s CEO, Dr. Krishna Thiagarajan, announced he would be stepping down.
Seattle Symphony appoints Xian Zhang, Its first woman music director
The Seattle Symphony’s Board of Directors has appointed Xian Zhang as its next music director—she will be the first woman to lead a major West Coast orchestra.
Xian Zhang: Classical music from Beijing to Seattle, by way of New Jersey
Xian Zhang’s Wikipedia page indicates that she started studying classical music with her mother, learning on a piano her father hand-built.