Zerrah Del Mundo is a 17-year-old senior high school student from Manila, Philippines with a deep appreciation for music and arts. She has been studying the piano for nearly 7 years, learning from many piano teachers. For the past two years, she has been studying under Dingdong Fiel, a Filipino concert pianist, whose guidance supported her development as a musician. Despite many challenges and times when financial resources were limited, Zerrah continues studying the piano through her faith in God and the support of her family and teacher. She loves to listen and finds inspiration from composers like Beethoven, Chopin, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. TwoSetViolin also helped her motivation to continue and take studying the piano seriously. She hopes to practice enough to be one step closer to Ling Ling. Until now, she remains dedicated to growing as a pianist and expressing herself through music.
Watch Zerrah Hayley Ilagan Del Mundo perform Waltz in C-Sharp Minor (Op. 64 no. 2) by Frederic Chopin on the piano for the 2026 Instrumental Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.