Joy Zhang ’21 has won the 17th Cornell Concerto Competition, held Dec. 15 in Barnes Hall. She performed Georges Hüe’s Fantaisie for Flute and Piano, accompanied by Andrew Zhou. The competition is presented by the Department of Music.
Zhang will perform as a featured soloist on the Hüe concerto, Feb. 29, 2020, at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra (CSO) conducted by Katherine Kilburn. She is currently the CSO’s principal flautist and performed with the orchestra on tour last winter in Taiwan.
A human biology, health and society major in the College of Human Ecology, Zhang studies flute with Elizabeth Shuhan, visiting lecturer in the Department of Music.
“The Hüe fantasie is an intricate piece because it was written as a competition piece for the Paris Conservatoire, the finest flute school at the time [1913],” Zhang said. “The piece is definitely a challenge but my teacher felt that I was ready and encouraged me to take it on … and at the end of the semester she suggested I enter the concerto competition to show what I had learned.”
Zhang is a pre-med student interested in women’s health.
