Juilliard Orchestra Goes to China
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The Juilliard Orchestra will tour the People’s Republic of China after an absence of 21 years, the school announced yesterday. The tour, which will take place between May 26 and June 6, will include concerts in Shanghai, at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and Beijing, at the newly opened National Centre for the Performing Arts. The orchestra will be accompanied by conductor Zhang Xian, an alumna of Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music, and three student soloists: pianists Conrad Tao, 13, and Peng Peng, 15 — both students in Juilliard’s Pre-College Division — and baritone Shen Yang, 23, an advanced artist-diploma student in the Juilliard Opera Center. The orchestra’s only other tour of the People’s Republic of China took place in 1987, when it was the first conservatory to celebrate the reopening of the People’s Republic.
