Violinist Dan Zhu will join the faculty from October 2025
The University of Ljubljana Academy of Music in Slovenia has announced the appointment of Chinese violinist Dan Zhu as its new violin professor. Zhu will take up the role in October 2025.
A native of Beijing, Zhu made his solo debut aged nine with the China Youth Chamber Orchestra. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from age twelve with Xiao-zhi Huang, followed by a full scholarship to study with Lucie Robert at Mannes College of Music in New York.
As an educator, Zhu has given masterclasses and lectured at Sibelius Academy, Tanglewood Festival, Princeton University, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Fontainebleau School of Music and Fine Arts.
He has recorded for labels such as BIS, Cascavelle, CPO, ORF and Naxos, on which he recorded Bright Sheng’s violin concerto Let Fly. He has performed as a soloist and recitalist worldwide, appearing at festivals such as Salzburg Festspiele, Verbier, Kuhmo, Marlboro, Enescu, Schleiswig-Holstein, Prades-Casals, Ravinia and Spoleto. He has been a member of Trio 3D since 2020, along with violist Diemut Poppen and cellist Danjulo Ishizaka.
Zhu is a member of the Nature Conservancy and the Antarctic Forum, and has been on three expeditions to Antarctica, where he became the first violinist in history to have performed on the continent in 2013.
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