The Joy is Within $2.05

About The Joy is Within

Zhang Le, a gentleman with style, a true artist from China...
- The New York Times

Zhang Le won the first prize in the National Violin Competition of China at age 13. When Dorothy DeLay heard him play, she said: "All the world will hear your playing, you will be a great violinist."

Later, Zhang Le went on to win the violin competition at the Aspen Music Festival, and immediately received a full scholarship from the Juilliard School of Music.

In Europe, Zhang Le was a prizewinner in the Queen Elizabeth International Competition in Belgium, the Menuhin Violin Competition in England, and the Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poland.

After attending Juilliard, he became the first violinist from China to join the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City.

As a soloist, he frequently gives concerts throughout the world.

In this collection of showpieces, violinist Zhang Le takes his place among such great individualistic violinists and arrangers as Heifetz, Kreisler, and Sarasate. Short works such as these require great and poetic imagination to bring them to life, and only a performer with a deeply personal sound and sense of beauty can capture their fleeting sensations.

Zhang Le's violin is a copy of a 1678 Stradivari made by Leandro Bisiach in 1920. This Bisiach violin was formerly owned by the legendary violinist Nathan Milstein.