Ann Yu currently is a student at the Preparatory Division of the Cleveland Institute of Music and studies with David Updegraff. She is also a member of first violin section in Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. As a sophomore, Ann is a recipient of the E.E. Ford Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund at Western Reserve Academy.

 

Ann started her music training with her father at the piano when she was four. Her first violin lesson was with her mother at age of seven. In the same year she won her first piano Gold Cup at the OFMC Junior Music Festival and since then, she has won thirteen Gold Cups for piano and ten violin Gold Cups.

 

Miss Yu has won many competitions and awards. To name a few, she won the Buckeye State Strings Competition in both the Elementary Division (2009) and Junior Division (2011) in Bowling Green, the W. Alfred Gray Competition in Westerville (2011), and the CPEA Strings Competition in Cleveland (2011). In past years, she won the Akron Symphony Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, and performed the third movement of Bruch Violin Concerto with the orchestra under Christopher Lees conducting (2009). During the Middle East District Buckeye Music Audition, Ann won both the piano competition and violin competition (2009). Ann performed piano solo at the OFMC State Convention in Dayton and was awarded Outstanding Junior Award (2008). The scholarships Ann won including the OFMC, Credo Chamber Music Camp and the CIM.

 

For two years, Ann attended the Credo Chamber Music Camp and studied with Stephen Clapp, and Marilyn McDonald. Her other teachers including Ping Yu, Si-Hong Ma, Ke-Qiang Li, David Russell and Wei-Fang Gu.

 

Ann Yu is a member of Brahms Allegro Junior Music Club and commits herself to serve community musically. She continues to share her music in churches, nursing homes, private homes, and charitable events. For many times, Ann was invited to perform for the members and friends of the Tuesday Music Club and The Friends of Music.