Conservatory-trained in China, pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei embarked on an international performing career after settling in Paris. She brings a sensitive, virtuosic touch to Schumann, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Scarlatti, but her true passion is for J.S. Bach. A groundbreaking 1990 recording of the Goldberg Variations was the first in a string of releases exploring the subtleties of Bach’s keyboard masterworks, from The Art of Fugue to the English Suites.