Michelle Zhang is a third-year student from St. Louis, Missouri, pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance at Washington University in St. Louis. Michelle began playing the oboe at age 11. At WashU, Michelle has been the principal oboist of the WashU Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, a member of several chamber ensembles, and a winner of the 2023–2024 Friends of Music Concerto and Aria Competition. Michelle currently studies oboe with Nadia Para, having previously studied with Claire Workinger, and has also received additional instruction from Dr. Sara Fraker of the University of Arizona and Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

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Michelle Zhang, Junior Major Recital, oboe

560 Music Center

The Bochum Symphony Orchestra commissions two or three compositions each year. This season, one of them is "Il Cenacolo" by the Bochum composer   Stefan Heucke . Heucke, with whom the orchestra has worked on and off for many years, was inspired to create this work by looking at Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper": "The great unity of the mural at first glance (almost everyone has the painting in their mind's eye in large) made me spontaneously think of the solo cello and 12 violins - a sonically extremely homogeneous line-up that, however, allows for the possibility of multi-coloured differentiation in detail."

Lord's Supper and Heavenly Bodies

Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

In this concert we dedicate Jean Sibelius’ 2nd Symphony to the memory of Leif Segerstam.

Stefan Heucke

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Past events

May 2, 2026

Michelle Zhang, Junior Major Recital, oboe · Washington University in St. Louis Department of Music

Apr 2, 2025

Lord's Supper and Heavenly Bodies · Bochumer Symphoniker

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