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Dining in the Cultural District

With more than 50 restaurants in walking distance to theaters, the Cultural District offers a wide variety of dining options to satisfy your personal tastes and budget. Enjoying a relaxing meal before a show or capping off the evening with cocktails and dessert add to a pleasurable experience in the Cultural District.

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The Perfect Gift

A Pittsburgh Cultural District-wide gift card can be used to purchase tickets for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust events as well as any event taking place in the Cultural District. With so many exciting shows, concerts, and exhibitions, there is truly something for everyone!

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Get to the Show!

The Cultural District is accessible by public transportation, including Port Authority buses, "T" light-rail service and Pittsburgh's famous inclines. Driving to the show? There is also ample parking in and around the District -- for real-time garage parking information, try ParkPGH.

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Yingchen Zhang

Second Violin

 

Violinist Yingchen Zhang was born in Beijing, she holds her bachelor of music and master of music at New England Conservatory where she studied with James Buswell and Soovin Kim. She was pursuing her DMA degree at Boston University under Bayla Keyes when she won the position of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2022. 

While at school Yingchen was appointed to be concertmaster for many years and she has been to many summer festivals including Kneisel hall chamber music festival, Zephyr international chamber music festival and Virtuoso& Belcanto international music festivals, Tanglewood music center, and she was also participated in fellowship program with Bowdoin music festival.

She won the second prize of the Violin competition held by Virtuoso&Belcanto during the festival in Italy . She also won the first prize of New England Conservatory Bales violin competition when she was at NEC. She won the third prize of LISMA foundation international music competition in NY and she was also invited to the 2019 Sendai international violin competition.

In 2021, she won the grand prize for the Bach competition at BU. She made her solo debut at Carnegie hall in New York in 2022 as one of the winners of the Carnegie competition held by BU.