Yi Zhou, Violoncello
Cellist Yi Zhou was born in China in 1996 and began to play cello at the age of seven. She studied cello with Mingqing Yu in Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing, China) from 2009 on. She participated in the class of Antonio Meneses at the Accademia Walter Stauffer in Cremona in Italy in October 2015 before entering the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland, where she studied with David Eggert, in 2016. She has attended master classes with Nicolas Altstaedt, Wolfgang Boettcher, Frans Helmerson and Ralph Kirschbaum. Her musical thought has been influenced by encounters with Simon Steen-Andersen, Lucas Fels, Stefan Prins, Rohan de Saram, Marco Stroppa and Caspar Johannes Walter.