Yi Zhou, Pipa

Musician

Praised for her “breathtaking” meticulous technique and expressiveness by the Washington Post, pipa and guqin soloist Zhou Yi started to learn music at the age of five. After graduating from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Zhou Yi moved to New York. Her highlight performances include: Tan Dun’s Concerto for Pipa and String Orchestra at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig Germany; Young People’s Concert with the New York Philharmonic; Bun-Ching Lam’s pipa concerto “Song of the Pipa” with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; “Sisters of the Grassland” pipa concerto with the Ohio Youngstown Symphony Orchestra; guest Chinese instrumentalist with the San Francisco Opera for Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber; seasonal Chinese instrumentalist with the Santa Fe Opera for Huang Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-sen; performed with the Momenta Quartet for Tan Dun’s theatrical work Ghost Opera; recorded the music for David Henry Hwang’s two off-broadway productions, The Dance and the Railroad and Kung Fu; played as a leading musician in Lincoln Center Festival’s Paradise Interrupted; collaborated with Damon Albarn (Gorillaz/Blur) in Spoleto Festival’s premiere show, Monkey: Journey To The West; joined Carnegie Hall’s “Musical Explorer” program. Zhou Yi is a co-founder of the Ba Ban Chinese Music Society of New York.