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#meetourstudents Hamzah Zaidi, age 21, is in his third year at the Royal Academy of Music studying cello with Felix Schmidt. He performed Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C at the 2017 Velenje Festival. Hamzah appeared at the BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall and on BBC...

#meetourstudents Wilson Vanderslice is a 20-year-old cellist from Conway, Arkansas, and is currently pursuing his bachelor’s degree from Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Guy Johnston. He appeared on stage as both section member and soloist with the...

#meetourstudents Martino Tazzari is a 19-year-old cellist from Florence, Italy, where he studies with Fernando Scarselli at the Conservatorio di musica Luigi Cherubini Firenze. He performed as soloist in many chamber music ensembles, orchestras and theater...

#meetourstudents Yu-Ping Wu, age 27, is pursuing his Artist Diploma at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Dmitry Kouzov and Daniel McDonough. He is a first prize winner of the 2016 Rocky Ridge Festival Concerto Competition and 2013 Taiwan...

#meetourstudents Catherine Yates is a 14-year-old cellist from Raleigh, North Carolina, and studies with Elizabeth Beilman. She won first place in concerto competitions with the North Carolina Symphony, Triangle Youth Philharmonic, and Duke String School Youth...

#meetourstudents Lillian Yim is an 18-year-old cellist from Unionville, Connecticut, and studies with Katie Kennedy and Greg Beaver. She performed as soloist with the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra and is a prizewinner in the Hartford Music Teachers...

#meetourstudents Maxwell Schultz is a 19-year-old cellist from LaGrange Park, Illinois, and currently studies with Dmitry Kouzov at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He won the 2019 Lyons Township Concerto Competition, and served as principal cellist in the...

#meetourstudents John Sample is a 20-year-old cellist from Katy, Texas, and currently studies with Amit Peled at Peabody Institute. He is a winner of Katy Young Artist Contest and has collaborated with the members of the Zodiac Trio and the Cavani Quartet. John...

#meetourstudents Manuel Papale is a cellist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and will soon begin his master’s with Emilo Colón from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He has made solo appearances with Texas Christian University’s Collegium Musicum in...

#meetourstudents Isaac Pagano Toub is a 19-year-old cellist from New York, and currently attends Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of David Ying. From 2012 to 2019, he studied at The Chamber Music Center of New York, participating in orchestra, chamber...