Nocturne with Dvořák

Anzhe Zuo, cellist, born in China, has been living in Zurich since 2015. Her talent allows her to look beyond the surface of musical pieces and create new connections.

In 2022 he won First Prize at the Vienna International Music Competition in the cello category, in 2021 Second Prize at the VIII Stockholm International Music Competition. In 2010, she won Second Prize at the National Chinese cello competition Aegean (Ai-Qin) in Beijing. Thanks to her impressive performance, she was selected as a soloist for the soundtrack of the Chinese film 'Chen Shaomei'. In 2016, she was invited as a jury member to the International 'New Stars' Competition.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Anzhe performs regularly in Europe and Asia. He has performed on prestigious stages such as the National Grand Theater in Beijing, Sogar Theater in Zurich and 'Gare du Nord für Neue Musik' in Basel, Tonhalle Zürich, and others. He founded the Amúr Duo with Swedish guitarist Anders Miolin. She has been principal cellist of the Zurich Chamber Philharmonie since 2022. In 2023, she was selected as cellist of the Bergen National Opera Summer Academy.

At the age of four, he began receiving piano lessons. A few years later, the cello became her greatest passion and main occupation. She studied at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK after graduating from the Tianjin Conservatory. In Zurich, she obtained her two Master's degrees in Cello and Music Pedagogy with Orfeo Mandozzi.

Cellists Thomas Grossenbacher, Yehuda Hanani, Gavriel Lipkind and Yunxin Zhang were among his main teachers.

At music festivals and attending masterclasses, Anzhe Zuo drew further inspiration from great musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Arto Noras, David Geringas, Natalia Gutman, Wen Sinn Yang and Yibing Zhu.

After these studies, he started the composition education programme in 2019 under the guidance of Till Löffler. 

Anzhe Zuo considers it essential to broaden his musical horizons with a deep understanding of music.

In addition to playing the cello, he studied the baroque cello and viola da gamba with Martin Zeller.

He perfected his piano studies with Carl Wolf and new music playing with Martina Schucan.

Anzhe Zuo also developed her artistic sensitivity and creativity as an abstract painter. She built her own system of synesthesia by creating abstract paintings inspired by specific pieces of music she worked on.

His compositions explore the limits of the unique and rich world of sound that only a cello can express.

Described by the press as "a solid reality of the Neapolitan Piano School," the distinguished musicologist and music critician Paolo Isotta wrote, "Pier Carmine owns that lunge of the key and that cantabile that show him to be a rightful heir to the teaching of Vincenzo Vitale."

Born in Naples in 1995, he graduated in piano with M° Francesco Nicolosi and in composition at the "D. Cimarosa" Conservatory of Avellino, and graduated in musicology from "La Sapienza" University in Rome. He specialized with M° Giuseppe Devastato in "Interpretación Musical e Investigación Performativa" at the Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio in Madrid and with M° Nazzareno Carusi in Chamber Music at the Piano Academy of Imola. He completed the 3rd level Biennium in Instrumental Musical Heritage with a focus on Solo Piano at the Academy of Music in Pinerolo.

He has performed for the Unione Musicale of Turin and in major concert halls, including the Metallener Saal of the Müsikverein in Vienna, the auditorium of the Scriabin Museum in Moscow, and the Shigeru Kawai Center in Madrid. He has won awards in prestigious international competitions, including Grand Prix at the IV Cesar Franck IPC in Brussels and VII Pianotalents IPC in Milan, and 2nd Prize at the XVII "Compositores de España" IPC in Madrid.

He is the author of the essay "Liszt allo specchio: dal De Profundis al Totentanz" ("Liszt in the Mirror: from De Profundis to Totentanz", PM Editions, 2019), and has recorded the solo CD "Liszt: Konzertsolos" (Da Vinci Classics, 2020) and the CD "Romantic Echoes" (Luna Rossa Classic, 2019) as a duo with violinist Federica Severini.He currently teaches piano at the State Conservatory of Music "Domenico Cimarosa" in Avellino, and attends the Advanced Piano Training Course with Mo Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.