Education
She previously received a Master in Performance (MPerf) and an Artist Diploma with distinction from the Guildhall, where she studied with full scholarship as a 2009 Marshall Scholar.
She previously received a Master in Performance (MPerf) and an Artist Diploma with distinction from the Guildhall, where she studied with full scholarship as a 2009 Marshall Scholar.
Having made her debut at age 19 with the Houston Symphony in Jones Hall, she has soloed with numerous orchestras, including the Clear Lake Symphony, the Irving Symphony in Dallas, Fort Worth Civic Symphony, Brazos Valley Symphony in College Station, the Moores School Symphony Orchestra, and the Houston Civic Symphony. Zhu has also performed at the Texas Music Festival, Aspen Summer Festival in Colorado and the Banff Arts Centre in Canada. She has been featured on American Broadcasting Company Television Network KTRK Channel-13 Visions program and KUHF 88.7 FM radio The Front Row arts magazine.
Zhu was born in Shanghai, China, where she began her musical study.
At age 11, she moved with her family to Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston, where she studied piano for six years with John Weems. After graduating Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land, she completed her undergraduate studies in 2009 Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston (Moores School of Music), where she studied with renowned pianist-pedagogue Nancy Weems.
Zhu has been invited to participate in master classes of pianists such as Pascal Rogé, Angela Hewitt, Anton Kuerti, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Peter Frankl, Abbey Simon, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Nelita True. In April 2010, Zhu performed with the Worthing Symphony Orchestra in Sussex under the baton of John Gibbons.
A frequent guest recitalist, she has been invited to perform for the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy in Chicago in July 2009.
Zhu has also performed recitals for the Rockport Performing Arts Series in Rockport, Texas, the San Antonio Tuesday Musical Club, Missouri State University Fite Family Music Festival Young Artist Series, the McKinney Musical Arts Society in Dallas, the Wichita Falls Symphony League"s First Night in the Falls Arts Festival.