Yige Zhou is a 7th grader from California. She is a musical girl who plays piano and flute. She started playing piano when she was 5 years old.
Yige was the first-place winter of both the 2022 Golden Classical Music Awards International competition and the 2022 Seattle international Piano Festival. She was invited to perform at NYC’s Carnegie Hall in 2022 too. She also won First Prize and Rising Star in the Muse 2019 international music competition. Additionally, she earned second place in both the 2019 Los Angeles Young Musician International Competition and the 2019 International music competition Salzburg “grand prize virtuoso”. From 2018 up to 2022, Yige has earned several first-place awards in the Southwestern Youth Music Festival and Satori Summer Music Festival. In 2021, she has also earned State honor piano for the advanced Level of Music Teacher’s Association of California Certificate of Merit 2021.
Whenever she plays music, she imagines each piece as a story unfolding beneath her fingertips and shaped by her breath. Music means a lot to her.
You can find Yige’s 2023 Spring Music Competition flute performance here.
You can find Yige’s 2023 Spring Music Competition piano performance here.