Natalie Zhu

Pianist Natalie Zhu has toured with violinist Hilary Hahn as an accompanist and also has notable careers as a soloist and chamber musician. In demand for festival appearances, Zhu is the artistic director of Rhode Island's Kingston Chamber Music Festival. Zhu was born in Beijing, China, around 1975 (a 2006 newspaper interview gave her age as 31) and took up the piano there at age six, studying with Xiao-Cheng Liu. At nine, she made her debut in Beijing. When Zhu was 11, she and her family emigrated to Los Angeles, where she took lessons with Li Ming-Qiang and Robert Turner. S...