Vivian Zhu, age 16, is a junior at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom, CA. She started her cello lessons with Mr. Jia-mo Chen and then Mrs. Julie Hochman since she was 7 years old. She has taken several cello master classes from Amit Peled, Andy Luchansky, Rachel Young, Laura Sewel, Bion Tsang and Hannah Holman. She won the first place in California Association of Music Professional Teacher Concerto competition(North)(2022), 1st place in Mountains Young Musicians Competition (2022), 2nd place (strings) in ENKOR International Music competition (2020/2021), 3rd place in the U.S. Open Music competition and 13th Luigi Cerritelli International Music Competition (2021), First Place Winner of the American Protégé International Music Competition and 3rd place Cello in International Music Competition and Classical Masters Festival. She has been selected to play in the California All-State Orchestra 2019, 2020 (2nd chair) and 2021. She is the recipient of Paul Perry Award from Mountains Young Musicians, full scholarships from National Symphony Orchestra SMI, Univ. of Pacific and Cazadero music programs. She was accepted to the National Symphony Orchestra SMI in 2021, International Cello Institute and Amit Peled’s Cello Academy in 2020. She has played with Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Premier Orchestra and Folsom Lake College Chamber Orchestra for six years. She attended Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Summer Chamber workshop for several years, attended Music by the Sea Chamber Summer Workshop in Monterey and played in the Pacific Institute of Music piano chamber group. Besides cello, Vivian enjoys STEM research, programming and performing ballet and contemporary dance at Hawkins school of performing Arts.
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129, Robert Schumann, 10:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfrrp-yZ8Wc
