Zhou Yi
, Cellist
Zhou
Yi began study cello at age six, and received her Bachelor and Master of
Degrees at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music where she had studied
cello with Professor Min Cao. She received a full scholarship to attend
Mannes College the New School for Music under the Professional Studies
Diploma Program in 2009, and studied cello with Professor Marcy Rosen.
She also studied at the Hamburg Conservatory of Music for one year in
2007. She currently attends the New England Conservatory and studies
cello with Professor Laurence Lesser.
She performed Schumann concerto with the Mannes Orchestra as her New
York debut at the Lincoln Center in February 2012. She had appeared as
soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in 2010, and has
performed Saint-Saens concerto in a minor with both the Mannes Community
Orchestra and the St. Thomas Orchestra in 2010. She had performed Haydn
concerto in C major with the Shanghai Conservatory Chamber Orchestra in
2009, Elgar concerto in E-minor and Schumann concerto in A minor with
the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004 and 2005. She has appeared as
an active solo and chamber musician in the Marlboro Music Festival,
Yellow Barn Music Festival, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival
and the Beijing Contemporary Music Festival.
She performed the cello suite Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon by Tan
Dun with the Shanghai Philharmonic and conducted by Mu Hai Tang in 2009,
which received enthusiastic praise from the composer and the concert
audience alike. She recorded an album of Distinguished Chinese Cello
Pieces which features the music of six Chinese composers. The album was
released by the Shanghai Music Publishing House in 2008.
(2013)
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Thank you for
your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts |
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