Shuwei Zuo MA, PerfDip
Shuwei has worked with some of the world's top orchestras and ensembles, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Opera House, Britten Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Manchester Collective, and is currently working at Sinfonia Smith Square. Shuwei enjoys collaboration and chamber music and has offered numerous solo, trio, and quartet concerts and recordings in York, Leeds, Hazelmere, London and Manchester.
She embarked on her musical journey at the age of 5 and attended a specialist music school. She took part in a tour in Taiwan with the China Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2012. In 2014, she successfully gained a place at the Central Conservatory of Music, studying with Jia Zhang, Liwei Tan, and Wei Xue. In the same year, she participated in the New York Summit Festival, where she was highly commended by legendary violinist Aaron Rosand, with whom she had lessons.
She moved to the UK to undertake her Master's degree at the Royal Academy of Music in 2018. She also won first prize in the Hummingbird Music Competition with her trio and was invited to hold chamber concerts in Peking University, Yantai, Wuxi, and many other cities.
She is currently studying at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on the Advanced Postgraduate Diploma with a scholarship soon after she received distinction graduation from Royal Northern College of Music.