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As one of most internationally renowned Chinese pianists and conductors, Xu Zhong is the founding member and Artistic Director of the China Shanghai International Piano Competition, the Artistic Director of Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director of Shanghai Sinfonietta. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with many of the most world-renowned musicians, including Philippe Entremont, Sergiu Commissiona, Paul Badura-Skoda, Jian Wang, Arie Vardi, Vladimir Krainev, Lazar Berman, Michel Dalberto, Arto Noras, Jean - Bernard Pommier, Gérard Poulet and Pavel Kogan.
Xu Zhong was born into a family of medical researchers in Shanghai. His early childhood music education from Prof. Wang Yu of Shanghai Conservatory of Music prepared him for the rigorous formal music education he was to receive in the class of Dominique Merlet at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Xu Zhong won numerous prestigious international competitions since 1988, including the 1st Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, the Santander Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition, the 5th Tokyo International Piano Competition and the 10th Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow.
Since then, besides being the regular guest of Chinese orchestras and presenters, both as a pianist and conductor, he has taken up a concert career spanning Europe, North America, South America and South-East Asia. “La Folle Journée de Nantes au Japon” held in May 2006 reviewed him as top artistic pianist bursting on to the world stage. He represents the future of Asia. He has worked with Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, MDR Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
In 2007/08, he hasl been the soloist and conductor of the Lille National Orchestra and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and has been the soloist of the Colonne Orchestra in Paris/Salle Pleyel.
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