Award-winning Chinese pianist Zitong Wang made her solo recital debut at age 13 in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. She has performed at such venues as the Steinway Hall in New York, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, and Severance Hall in Cleveland. She has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic, Yakima Symphony, and Waring Festival Orchestras. She has worked with conductors Jahja Ling, Xian Zhang, Lina Gonzalez-Granados, José Trigueros, and Yang Yang.

Among others, she won first prize in the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition and Virginia Waring International Concerto Competition, second prize in the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition, and first prize in the Princeton Festival Competition and France Music Competition. In 2022, she won first prize and the “Nelson Freire Prize” for the best performer of a piece by Frederick Chopin in the XXXIII Ferrol International Piano Competition.

CMNW Community Concert w/ Protégés Diana Adamyan & Zitong Wang

Friday, July 21, 2023 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Gresham Arts Plaza, Gresham, OR, United States

Chamber Music Northwest is excited to bring two of our 2023 Summer Festival Protégé Project artists, Zitong Wang (piano) and Diana Adamyan …

Free

CMNW Spotlight Recital: Très Coloré et Élégant

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 @ 12:00pm – 2:00pm (PDT)
David Serkin LudwigOur Long War (2012, with poetry by Katie Ford)
Gabriel Fauré — Selected works
Maurice RavelSonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73

$30 ($20 under age 30, $10 under age 18)

CMNW: David Ludwig's 'The Anchoress'

Monday, July 17, 2023 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, Portland, OR, United States

$32.50-$67.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)

CMNW: David Ludwig's 'The Anchoress'

Sunday, July 16, 2023 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)

$32.50-$67.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)

CMNW: umama womama – Coleman, Lash, & Ngwenyama

Monday, July 10, 2023 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Kaul Auditorium at Reed College, Portland, OR, United States
Zoltán KodálySerenade for two violins and viola, Op. 12
Nokuthula NgwenyamaDown (CMNW co-commission, west coast premiere)
Han LashMusic in Cold (CMNW co-commission, west coast premiere)
Valerie ColemanAja (CMNW co-commission, west coast premiere)
R. Murray SchaferTrio for flute, viola, and harp
Sergei RachmaninoffPiano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36

$47.50-$62.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)

CMNW: umama womama – Coleman, Lash, & Ngwenyama

Sunday, July 9, 2023 @ 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Zoltán KodálySerenade for two violins and viola, Op. 12
Nokuthula NgwenyamaDown (CMNW co-commission, west coast premiere)
Han LashMusic in Cold (CMNW co-commission, west coast premiere)
Valerie ColemanAja (CMNW co-commission, west coast premiere)
R. Murray SchaferTrio for flute, viola, and harp
Sergei RachmaninoffPiano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36

$47.50-$62.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)