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.

2008

The River and the Secret, an autobiographical novel about her years

of rehabilitation won the Grand Prix des Muses

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Rewards selection

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

Ferruccio Busani  Bolzano  Italie  -  Clara Haskil Vevey  Suisse

2014

  -  Nommée Professeur du Conservatoire de Beijing, lors de son passage en Chine

2015

  -  Vainqueur ICMA Special Award 2015 avec ses enregistrements de Bach :

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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