Zhao Xiaoxia is a master teacher of guqin at the Central Conservatory of Music, visiting scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, China, and visiting professor at Singapore Raffles Music College. Since 1995, she has studied under the guidance of Professor Li Xiangting. As a soloist, she twice performed in the hall of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. She has appeared with the New Zealand, Sydney, and Netherlands Symphonies; the Tokyo Philharmonic; and other well-known orchestras internationally, as well as in the Tokyo, Schleswig-Holstein, and Beijing Music Festivals, among others. Since 2011, she has participated in the world tour of composer Tan Dun’s Martial Arts Trilogy. At the opening ceremony of Expo 2019, the world horticultural exposition in Beijing, her guqin performance showed the charm of Chinese culture to the heads of state of dozens of countries.
Ms. Zhao will perform with The Orchestra Now on April 8, 2023.
Bio: March 2023