The recipient of a 2006 Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award, the 2003 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2003 Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, pianist NATALIE ZHU is a winner of Astral Artistic Services’ 1998 National Auditions. Ms. Zhu has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Ms. Zhu made her European debut in 1994 at the Festival de Sully et d’Orleans in France; she has also given solo recitals at the Philadelphia Chamber Music  Society, New York’s Steinway Hall and Merkin Hall, Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Series in Fresno, Portland Piano Festival in Oregon, Munich’s Herkulessaal in Germany, and Beijing Concert Hall in China. She has performed with both the Vermeer and Miami quartets, and collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Orion, Mendelssohn,Ying Quartets, and the Beaux Arts Trio. 

 

Natalie Zhu began her piano studies with Xiao-Cheng Liu at the age of six in her native China and made her first public appearance at age nine in Beijing. At eleven she emigrated with her family to Los Angeles, and by fifteen was enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music where she received the Rachmaninoff Award and studied with Gary Graffman She received a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music where she studied with Claude Frank.

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