9-year-old Leia Zhu performs the second and third movements of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Surgut Philharmonic conducted by Denis Kirpanev in April 2016.
A student of Itzhak Rashkovsky, the young violinist won the International Russian Rotary Music Competition in Moscow in September 2015 – watch her performing Mendelssohn in the final.
She also won the International Competition ‘Young Virtuosos’ in Sophia, Bulgaria in March 2015 aged 8 – watch her performing Wieniawski in the final.
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