PRESS
SCHERZO
NOVEMBER 2025
“The duo had the audience in their pocket. Strong as they are individually, their union resulted in a supreme force. They offered a splendid interpretation, displaying enormous interpretative range, impeccable technique, and deep rapport”
DIARIO DE SEVILLA
JUNE 2024
“The clarity of his articulation and the perfect balance between the hands emerged, allowing every voice to sing clearly. Attention to each phrase and variety in accentuation characterized his interpretation — as delicate and lyrical in the calm moments as volcanic and passionate in the more agitated ones”
REVISITA MUSICAL CATALANA
MARCH 2024
“Zang brings a distinctive personality to his interpretation and embraces stylistic risks of great boldness and flair, without departing from the work’s own idiom”
SCHWÄBISCHE ZEITUNG
APRIL 2023
“For Xiaolu Zang, current ZF Music Prize winner, there seems to be no technical limit”
INTERNATIONAL PIANO
AUGUST 2022
PIANONews
AUGUST 2022
“(Xiaolu Zang) was just right for this concert. With courage and power he played, transporting the sound of the grand piano voluminously into the hall”
“Xiaolu Zang, winner of the Bergé Second Prize, gave a stirring account of Tchaikovsky's First Concerto”
ZF KUNSTSTIFTUNG
MAY 2022
“Xiaolu Zang demonstrated the deepest musical understanding. His playing captivated with the utmost precision and virtuosity, sustained by great inner shaping power and an almost unbelievable richness of tone color”
SÜDKURIER
MAY 2022
“The moment just before his fingers touch the keys again is special every time. As powerfully as he prepares, he caresses the keys just as gently. Every tiniest pause in the playing—when each note is given space and time to fade—is precisely placed and yet seems to spring from the very heart of the musician”
LE SOIR
MAY 2021
“Xiaolu Zang seems to breathe music… Such intimacy brings the sublime central adagio into an atmosphere of unspeakable modesty. His phrasing lets the melody sing like an opera aria… It is a miracle to maintain a constant curiosity in the subtlest of discourses”
LA LIBRE
MAY 2021
“gentle yet luminous, pearly, propelled by an agogic clarity that works beautifully in the exchanges with the orchestra… His imagination, his drive, and his sense of color are breathtaking. And when suddenly power enters the fray, and fever, and the cry, and nostalgia, and grandeur, it is magnificent and all the more moving”
OUEST - FRANCE
MAY 2019
“It has to be said that this young prodigy combines flawless technique with spectacular stage presence”