Zhu Xiao-Mei Author

Zhu Xiao-Mei was born in Shanghai, China. She began playing the piano when she was a young child, and by the age of eight was performing for Peking radio and television stations. She entered the Beijing Conservatory when she was eleven years old, but her education was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution. After five years in a labor camp in Inner Mongolia, she returned to Beijing, before moving to the United States and finally Paris, where she has lived and worked since 1984. She teaches at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and has performed for audiences on six continents. She is one of the world’s most celebrated interpreters of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.