BIOGRAPHY
Ziying Hu, a 2nd year double bass master student at
Yale School of Music, was featured as "a music fairy on the string"
on the cover of the 45th issue of The Artists of China magazine. Ziying was
awarded Harriet Gibbs Fox Memorial Prize from
Ziying was born into a family of artists in
the age of nine when she was admitted to Suzhou Youth Symphony Orchestra as the Principal Bass. In 2015, Ziying was accepted as a member of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, and leads the bass section from 2016 to 2019. Ziying's college experience culminated with the SFSYO European tour in the summer of 2019. She had the privilege to play in the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including the Berliner Philharmonie, the Wiener Musikverein, and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Ziying studied with Prof. Luo Bing at the Affiliated
High School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She studied with Prof. Stephen
Tramontozzi, the Assistant Principal Bass with the San Francisco Symphony, at
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she received a Bachelor's Degree
in Music Performance. Currently, she is studying with Prof. Donald Palma at
Yale School of Music. She has performed in master classes with Professor Gary
Karr, Edgar Meyer, Scott Pingel, Boguslaw Furtok, Klaus Trumph, Artem Chirkov,
Joe Lescher, Alex Hanna, Timothy Pitts, David Grossman, and Orin O' Brien.
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