Pianist Dingyuan Zhang to perform recital on Oct. 5
Zhang Dingyuan graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and earned graduate degrees at the Berlin University of the Arts (2003 and 2008). In 2009, she was visiting scholar at the University of North Texas in Denton.
Winner of many piano competitions, she has performed in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and throughout China, as well as in Berlin. Her most recent CD is "Zhang Dingyuan plays Debussy," and her new book, "The Interpretation of Piano Duet," was recently published.
She is currently a professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai.
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Contact Julie Bees, professor, School of Music, 316-978-6089 or julie.bees@wichita.edu.