![]() His career has seen him performing in over 40 cities around the world including a successful solo debut at the Weil Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) in New York. ![]() He garnered further attention in 1988 upon winning second prize at the First Chinese National Cello Competition and went on to win more than 13 competitions, awards and honors. Zhao made his first concert appearance at age five, and solo debut in the Beijing Concert Hall at age nine. ![]() He is one of the founding members of the award-winning Great Wall String Quartet, and in 2013 he was honored as one of China’s Ten Extraordinary Cellists of the Generation. Hailed in New York Concert Review as “… a superb cellist with intense and sensuous sound,” and described by the Los Angeles Times as “ … being able to handle the most intricate musical works with unblinking ease and expressive zeal,” cellist Yao Zhao performs with a rare and captivating dynamism that has secured him a successful career as the tenured Principal Cellist for the San Diego Symphony Orchestra since 2005, and as a faculty member at San Diego State University since 2009.
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