Weilu ZHANG

CHINA

  • date of birth: 27th of February 1993

  • is currently attending the New England Conservatory of Music with Prof. Nicholas Kitchen

  • studied at the Central Conservatory of Music – Music School as a student of Prof. Weidong Tong and participated in a demonstrative training film production for the “Music Tell You” Program of CCTV’s Music Channel with Prof. Weidong Tong

  • was accepted in the Advanced Performance Program of Mount Royal University of Canada as a student of Prof. Bill Van der Sloot in 2012 and one year later became his teaching assistant

  • made her debut with China’s National Symphony Orchestra

Prizes: First Prize in String Quartet and First Prize in Violin Solo Competition at the Alberta Music Festival; First Prize in the “Approaching Mozart” Piano and Violin Works Competition for Young Musicians in 2006

Program:

First Round

Bach Grave and Fugue from Sonata for Solo Violin in A minor

Mozart Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major K. 219

Paganini Caprice no. 18

Second Round

Beethoven Sonata no. 9 in A major op. 47, “Kreutzer”

EnescuMénétrier” from Impressions d’enfance Suite op. 28

Chausson Poème op. 25

Semifinal

Brahms Sonata no. 3 in D minor op. 108

Enescu Sonata no. 3 in A minor op. 25, dans le caractère populaire roumain”

Waxman Carmen Fantasy

Final

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major op. 61