" Incredible technique married with captivating emotional depth.
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Lauded as one of today's probing musical voices infused with searing virtuosity, Nancy Zhou is the winner of the 2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition. With a robust online presence that seeks to invigorate appreciation for the art and science of the violin, her thoughtful musicianship resonates with a global audience in such a way that brings her on stage with leading orchestras around the world.
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Making her orchestral debut at the age of 13 with her hometown orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony, Nancy went on to collaborate with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Munich Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, among others. She has collaborated with conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Sakari Oramo, Peter Oundjian, Eun Sun Kim, Christoph Poppen, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Michael Stern, Darrell Ang, Jurjen Hempel, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, and Ken-David Masur.
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Alongside projects undertaken as a soloist, Nancy holds interest in chamber music and providing guidance to young musicians. As a collaborator, she has performed at the Verbier Festival, Ravinia Festival, Tongyeong Music Festival, Festpiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Festival de Coimbra, the Marvão Festival, and the Paganini Genova Festival. In 2017, she was invited by the Encore Chamber Music Festival to serve as guest artist and faculty member. She is a regular guest educator at summer festivals, holding masterclasses at various institutions and conducting private classes. Since the spring of 2020, Nancy devotes time to a private online studio, teaching a number of students across the globe and presenting public group classes on fundamental training and cultivating mindful awareness.
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The past seasons, Nancy has endeavored to explore works outside the traditional oeuvre. In collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony and conductor Xian Zhang, she presented Zhao Jiping's first violin concerto at Alice Tully Hall, as well as gave the US premiere of Unsuk Chin's "Gran Cadenza" for two solo violins with Anne-Sophie Mutter across the US. In the forthcoming season, she will perform Chen Qigang's "La joie de la souffrance" with the Rogue Valley Symphony and embark on a collaborative project with Vivian Fung, commissioning the Canadian-born Chinese composer to write a work for solo violin and electronics so as to explore the intersection of the violinist's personal family oral history, folk minority culture, and, indeed, music.
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Born in Texas to Chinese immigrant parents, Nancy began the violin under the guidance of her father. She went on to study with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory while pursuing her interest in literature at Harvard University. Additionally, she is an Associated Artist of the Queen Elisabeth Chapel, Professor of Violin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is Artist-in-Residence of the Santa Cruz Symphony.
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2022/23 season. Not to be altered without permission.
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- Sat, Nov 02Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumNov 02, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PMSanta Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USAErich Korngold - Violin Concerto in D, op. 35
- Sun, Nov 03Henry J Mello CenterNov 03, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PMHenry J Mello Center, 250 E Beach St, Watsonville, CA 95076, USAErich Korngold - Violin Concerto in D, op. 35
- Fri, Nov 08Rothschild Performing Arts CenterNov 08, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMRothschild Performing Arts Center, San Jose, CA, USAArvo Pärt - Fratres, Ottorino Respighi - Sonata for violin & piano, César Franck - Sonata for violin & piano
- Sat, Nov 23HangzhouNov 23, 2024, 7:00 PM – Nov 24, 2024, 7:00 PMHangzhou, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, ChinaErich Korngold - Violin Concerto, op. 35
- Sun, Nov 24Cabrillo CollegeNov 24, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMCabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos, CA 95003, USAWorks by J.S. Bach, Béla Bartók, Eugène Ysaÿe, and Fritz Kreisler.
- Sat, Dec 07Mandeville AuditoriumDec 07, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMMandeville Auditorium, 9390 Mandeville Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093, USAVivian Fung - Violin Concerto No. 1
- Sun, Dec 08San DiegoDec 08, 2024, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PMSan Diego, 9390 Mandeville Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093, USAVivian Fung - Violin Concerto no. 1
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