Angie Zhang, piano

Angie Enqi Zhang, 13, moved from Portland, Oregon to New Jersey and entered the Juilliard Pre-college in 2007 where she studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky.

In March 2009, Angie performed Mozart piano concerto KV271 with the Olympia Symphony Orchestra at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia, WA under Huw Edwards. In December 2008, as the winner of the Juilliard Pre-College Piano concerto competition, Angie performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major, Op.15 with the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony under George Stelluto at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Lincoln Center in New York.

In April 2008, Angie won the Ensemble 212 Young Artist Competition and performed Mendelssohn's Capriccio Brillant, Op.22 with the orchestra under Yoon Jae Lee in the Good Shepherd Faith Church at Lincoln Center in New York. In June 2008, she won a first prize in the Rosalyn Tureck Bach International Competition at Steinway Hall in New York. Angie spent the summer of 2008 at the Aspen Music Festival and School. She performed at the Harris Concert Hall and was broadcasted on the Aspen Public Radio. Angie had her solo recital at Paul Hall in the Juilliard School in November 2008.

Angie started to play with orchestras when she was ten years old. In 2006, Angie performed Mozart Concerto KV453 with orchestra at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon under Niel DePonte as a winner of the Young Artists Concerto Competition. Angie performed as the first piano of "Carnival of Animals" by Saint-Saens with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra under Huw Edwards in the same year.

Angie began piano study at age four with her mother. Prior to entering the Juilliard, Angie studied with Dorothy Fahlman in Portland, Oregon. She studied with Julian Martin in her first year at the Juilliard Pre-college. She has had master class sessions with Leon Fleisher, Paul Roberts, Guangren Zhou, Janet Guggenheim, Young Hi Moon, Davide Cabassi and Helen Huang. Angie is also a very active chamber performer both as pianist and cellist. She often appears as a performer at Paul Hall, Morse Hall and the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at the Juilliard. She has had chamber music lessons with Joseph Kalichstein, Victoria Mushkatkol, Dr. Ira Taxin, Cornelia Heard and Masao Kawasaki. Angie is a President's Honor Roll student at the Thomas R. Grover Middle School in West Windsor, New Jersey.