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Xiang Zou bridges the gap between east and west. As founder of the New Asian Ensemble, this Honens Prize Laureate is dedicated to commissioning and playing new music by Chinese composers. He is equally devoted to introducing the music of Western composers to Chinese audiences. Zou gave the Chinese premiere and made the first-ever recording by a Chinese pianist of Olivier Messiaen’s seminal Vingts regards sur l’enfant Jésusmore than 50 years after it was composed. He is a piano faculty member at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and guest professor at the Wuhan Conservatory.