Mélodie Zhao

Mélodie Zhao’s music family played a job in the introduction of her abilities, which earned her a professional’s level in soloist functionality in the Geneva Conservatory at only age 16. Zhao was created in Switzerland, but informed both there and in China, where her grandfather trained her ideal pitch and her grandmother provided her key pad lessons. Her dad — among her most important instructors — was an esteemed violin instructor at China’s Central Conservatory. Via such a family group, it was no real surprise that Zhao produced her first open public appearance when she was six. Her initial full-length, single recital occurred in Geneva when she was 10. Immediately after, she was showing up at celebrations throughout Switzerland, and in 2007, at age group 13, became the youngest person to record both pieces of Chopin’s etudes. The composer was such a preferred of hers that she attempted to understand everything she could about his lifestyle. Her repertoire also contains some of the most well-known and technically complicated piano concertos, such as for example Rachmaninov’s second and third concertos, both of Liszt’s and Chopin’s, some of Mozart’s, and Ravel’s Concerto in G. Zhao proceeds to execute in both European countries and China and became a going to teacher at Shengli School in China in 2008. Zhao in addition has tried her hands at composing, making a water-inspired function for the 2010 Shandong Music Celebration in Jinan, China. Zhao information for the Claves label, issuing an record of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes in 2011 and the entire sonatas of Beethoven in 2013.