About
Xian Zhang is a Chinese-American conductor and arts leader. She is Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony and, as of the 2025-26 season, Music Director of the Seattle Symphony; she previously served as Music Director of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano and remains its Conductor Emeritus. Public coverage highlights her as a barrier-breaking orchestral leader and a recurring guest conductor with major international orchestras.
Areas of interest
classical musicorchestral conductingoperamusic educationcommunity outreachdiverse programmingChinese and contemporary classical repertoire