Chinese cellist Jiahe Zhang is pursuing her Bachelor of Music degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, studying under Clive Greensmith. Jiahe was born in Ningxia China in 2004. At the age of eight, she began to take cello lessons under the guidance of Mu Zhu in Beijing. As a junior student, Jiahe has attended masterclasses and workshops held by Steven Isserlis, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz, Wen-Sinn Yang, Miklós Perényi, Gary Hoffman, Natalie Clein, among others. She has been awarded as the young cellist being a prize-winner at the 11th International Cello Competition in Serbia, the 30th Young Musician Competition ‘Città di Barletta’, the "New Talent" competition for young musicians in London, and has won several prizes at the “AiQin Cup" international cello competition in Beijing, and “The Most Popular Cellist” of Blackmore in Berlin. Jiahe has participated as an active participant in several music festivals, such as Cello Akademie Rutesheim (2019, 2022) Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (2022) Swiss International Music Academy (2022) She performed as a soloist with orchestra in the final concert of the Qingdao Strings Festival, Zhuhai Strings Festival and 2022 Cello Akademie Rutesheim with Conductor Douglas Bostock and Southwest German Chamber Orchestra played Tchaikovsky “Pezzo Capriccioso”.
After listening to her performance, Professor Jo Cole, director of the string music at the
Royal Conservatory of music, commented: "An assured and confident performance full of energy and incisive articulation, which shows a sense of soloistic confidence, an engaging performance of great technical proficiency and spirit."