These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut of Meigui Zhang.

Soprano Meigui Zhang’s 2022/23 season features her role debut as Euridice opposite Jakub Józef Orliński in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at San Francisco Opera, her Atlanta Opera debut as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and a return to the Metropolitan Opera covering Ilia in Mozart’s Idomeneo. Appearances as soprano soloist include Brahms’ Requiem with the Calgary Philharmonic and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the New Jersey Symphony. As a soprano soloist, she performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in the 2021/22 season throughout China with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra.

Zhang was the Grand Prize winner of the 2019 Verbier Festival “Prix Yves Paternot” and a finalist in the 2019 Queen Sonja International Music Competition; she took second place at the 2020 Opera Index Vocal Competition and the Audience Prize from the 2020 Glyndebourne Opera Cup. She earned her master’s degree from the Mannes School of Music, where she was a recipient of the George and Elizabeth Award, and completed her bachelor’s degree at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.