Mingke Zhu, was born in Hunan, China. In 2009, she went to the middle school of Wuhan Conservatory of Music where she majored in piano performance and studied with Prof. Chongxiao Liu. During high school, she won the first place of “The Golden Hall of Vienna New Year Concert in Wuhan. In 2018, she graduated from The Catholic University of America with BM in Piano Performance and Minor in Mathematics degrees. During her undergraduate studies at CUA, she studied
piano with Dr. Ivo Kaltchev. In 2020, She gained her Master of Music degree in piano Performance at the Peabody Institute of Music where she studied with Prof. Brian Ganz. Mingke is winner of the following piano competitions: 2nd Prize, Concert Artists International Competition, 2023; 2nd Prize, the 5th Catholic University of America International piano Competition, 2018; 1st Prize, Lancaster International Piano Festival Competition, 2017; 2nd Prize, 2016 Xi’an International Music Festival Competition, Xi’an, China, 2016. She is the recipient of the 2018 CUA Benjamin Rome School of Music Instrumental Performance Award as well as the 2016 Presser Foundation Undergraduate Scholar Award. Currently Mingke is pursuing Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano performance at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts where she studies with Prof. John Perry.
You can find Mingke’s 2023 International Piano Competition performance here.