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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