Annie Zhou

Born in 1998, Annie is currently a scholarship student at the Young Artists Performance Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she studies with Professor Marietta Orlov. She began her piano lessons at the age of four with Tanya Tkachenko. At the age of five, she was the youngest student of any discipline to be awarded a scholarship from the Royal Conservatory School. Annie has won consecutively first place at the National Finals of the Canadian Music Competitions for all three years she entered the competition, obtaining the overall highest mark in the piano category in 2006 and 2008. She was also a top prize winner at the Third Canadian Chopin Piano Competition. More recently, she won first place at the Fifth Toronto Sinfonietta Concerto Competition in the category of age under sixteen. Annie has performed in international music festivals and prestigious concert halls in Canada, the United States, and Italy. She appeared at "Assisi in the World" in Italy twice, and at Music Niagara in its Young Virtuosos series. She performed at Glenn Gould Studio, Koerner Hall, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the Mississauga Living Arts Centre, the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts. She had her Carnegie Hall debut as a gold medalist at the AADGT International Young Musicians Competition, and performed at Bechstein Piano Center, and Steinway Hall in New York. Annie appeared as a soloist with the CAST Philomusica Orchestra at the age of eight, and with the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra at the age of ten. She played on the same stage as "The Tragically Hip", one of Canada's most successful and influential rock bands, at the Royal Occasion.



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