Following a highly successful first season as Music Director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Xian Zhang gets her second off to a flying start this autumn, conducting no fewer than 10 concerts over the course of a single month at venues across the North American state. 

Three programmes will be presented, beginning with Beethoven’s Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Piano Concerto No.5 ​“Emperor” (with soloist Jeremy Denk) and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique on 7 and 8 October. 

The following week (12 – 15 October) Zhang is joined by cellist Alban Gerhardt for Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, performed alongside Kernis’ Musica Celestis and Beethoven’s Symphony No.6. 

Beethoven also graces the third programme’s concerts on 2 – 5 November – here the Coriolan Overture and Symphony No.5 frame Bartók’s Piano Concerto No.3, with soloist Conrad Tao.