Miao Zhao

Biographie

Clarinetist, improviser and curator Shuyue Miao Zhao was born in China in 1990 and currently lives in Zurich. She has obtained Bachelor and Master of Music degrees under the tutelage of world renowned clarinetist/musicologist Prof. Charles Neidich from the Juilliard School NYC with full scholarship. In 2015, she moved to Switzerland to further her Bass clarinet studies with Prof. Ernesto Molinari , with a focus on contemporary music, enrolling in Specialized Master Solist diplom at the Bern University of the Arts. During her studies, she worked as an assistant to Prof. Ernesto Molinari. In 2017 She was accepted to HKB / CAP soundart studies to further her passion on electronic musc. Miao is the first prize winner of the 2017 Concours Nicati and Tschumi Preis 2017, since then she has been performing in various contemporary music ensembles and festivals throughout Switzerland. Her interpretation of Brian Ferneyhough's "La Chute d'lcare" with Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain has been released on the NEOS label.

Tag: experimental, contemporary