Sarina Zhang

Born in Canada and raised in San Diego, pianist and cellist Sarina Zhang made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in 2011. She was named a National Young Arts Winnerand a Davidson Fellow by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. She is
also the first person in the history of the Aspen Music Festival to have won both the low strings competition and the piano concerto competition. She has been featured five times on the national
radio program From the Top, as both a pianist and a cellist, in addition to appearance on the program’s TV series. She has performed as a soloist with the St. Louis, Detroit, San Diego, Albany, and Corpus Christi symphony orchestras, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Youth Philharmonic, among others. Most recently, she made her debut with the Juilliard Orchestra and Maestro Susanna Mälkki performing Schumann’s A minor Piano Concerto in Alice
Tully Hall. She was also selected as one of 11 young artists to attend Music@Menlo’s prestigious Chamber Music Institute International Program in 2015.