1949

Zhu Xiao-Mei  朱晓玫 was born in Shanghai  China.

Initiated very young, to music and piano, by her mother,

she performed on radio and television at the age of eight.

1959

She entered the Beijing Conservatory, but the Cultural Revolution  

interrupted her studies.

After five years in a labor camp in Zhangjiakou,  a city on the border

of Inner-Mongolia, where she managed to work the piano a little,

she joined the Beijing Conservatory.

1979

Taking advantage of an opening in the Chinese regime, she left for

the United States and joined the New England Conservatory in Boston.

1985

She obtained a Master's degree in piano performance.

The same year, she moved to France and taught at the Conservatoire  

National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

1994

First recital, in the capital.

She began to give concerts of her favorite composers:

Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann. and thus

made herself known to the whole world.

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2008

The River and the Secret  - Robert Laffont editions

Her autobiographical novel about her years of rehabilitation won :

the Grand Prix des Muses

2016

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Awards selection

  -  Member of the jury of international piano competitions

Jean-Sebastien Bach  Leipzig  Germany  -  Long-Thibaud Cespin Paris  France

Ferruccio Busani  Bolzano  Italy -  Clara Haskil Vevey  Switzerland

2014

  -  Appointed Professor of the Beijing Conservatory, during her visit to China

2015

  -  Winner ICMA Special Award 2015 with her Bach recordings:

Johann Sebastian Bach : L'art de la fugue  -  Accentus Music CD : ACC30308

Johann Sebastian Bach : Les Variations Goldberg  - DVD de musique Accentus : ACC20313

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ZHU XIAO-MEI  Retour en Chine  Michel Mollard

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