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Mar 24, 20181 min

Leia Travels from Kazan to Novosibirsk to Participate Trans-Siberian Art Festival

Updated: Dec 7, 2020

March 17 - 24, 2018 Novosibirsk

Violinist Leia Zhu fly from Kazan to Novosibirsk to take part in the Trans-Siberian Art Festival 2018.

In a review by the Strad, of Zhu’s performance of Carmen Fantasie by Waxman with Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival, the Strad wrote:

‘Eleven-year-old British violinist Leia Zhu demonstrated a disarming security in the pyrotechnics that followed, with lightning-fast shifts, cut-glass harmonics and an obvious familiarity with the choreography of concerto performance.’

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