Dan Zhu will step into the role in October 2025
The University of Ljubljana Academy of Music in Slovenia has announced that Chinese violinist Dan Zhu will join its faculty. He will step into the role in October 2025.
Zhu has recently made duo-recital appearances with Christoph Eschenbach, Gerhard Oppitz, and with Kun Woo Paik.
As a chamber musician, he has also appeared with figures including Philippe Entremont, Peter Frankl, Richard Goode, Lang Lang, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Joshua Bell, Henri Demarquette, Nobuko Imai, Mischa Maisky, and Paul Meyer.
Hailing originally from Beijing, Zhu made his public debut when he was just nine years old, performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto with the China Youth Chamber Orchestra. Three years later, he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied with Xiao-zhi Huang. At seventeen, he won a full scholarship to study with Lucie Robert at Mannes College of Music in New York, where he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Tchaikovsky violin concerto the next year.
Zhu has recorded for labels including BIS, Cascavelle, CPO, Naxos, and ORF, including critically acclaimed world-premiere recordings of Bright Sheng’s violin concerto “Let Fly” and the Boris Papandopulo violin concerto.
As a pedagogue, he has been invited to give masterclasses and lectures at the Sibelius Academy, Tanglewood Festival, Princeton University, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Fontainebleau School of Music and Fine Arts.