Sarina Zhang

Raised in San Diego and New York City, Canadian-American pianist and cellist Sarina Zhang made her debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2011. She was named a National YoungArts Winner and 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 and the piano concerto competition. 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, among others. Most recently, she was a part of the 4th Season of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle with Gautier Capuçon. Sarina graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School, studying piano with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Hung-Kuan Chen, and cello with Richard Aaron and David Finckel. She continued her studies in Germany at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik, where she studied with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Balázs Szokolay. 

Currently, Sarina is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan in cello performance with Richard Aaron.