Sophie Xuefei Zhang
Chinese-born Canadian pianist Sophie Xuefei Zhang enjoys a career as a soloist, a chamber musician, and an arts educator. She has appeared on stage with Kim Kashkashian, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Ian Swensen, and Bonnie Hampton as well as members of the Juilliard String Quartet, Ives String Quartet, American String Quartet, Windscape, and Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, among others. Sophie has served as artist-in-residence with her piano duo at Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec for the 2012-2013 season, and ensemble-in-residence with Aleron Trio on San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series for the 2014-2015 season. She has also served as gallery lecturer at MoMA Museum of Modern Art and as lecturer at City College of New York. A graduate of Manhattan School of Music and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Sophie is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Teachers College Columbia University with a research focus in interdisciplinary education in Music and Art. Selections of Sophie’s photography work have been published in the book Tibet, the Life Changing Journey (Shantou University Press 2010); other works have also been put on auction at the International Women and Children’s Health Conference to raise money to support local initiatives in women and children’s health.