About Me

Violinist Jing Zeng, a native of China, began playing the violin at age four, and at eleven was accepted as the top violin student into the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. While attending the conservatory’s middle and high schools, she was the winner of the Sixth National Violin Competition in Beijing. At age of sixteen, she was accepted into the Young Artist Program of the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received both her bachelor and master degrees in violin performance. Her violin teachers included the president of the institute David Cerone, his wife Linda Sharon Cerone and the concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra William Preucil. Ms. Zeng has performed in numerous recitals and chamber music concerts in the U.S and won the first prize at the Darius Milhaud Performance Competition; was selected to participate in the Music Bridge International Music Workshop six times in Canada; attended the New York String Orchestra Seminar under Jamie Laredo at the Carnegie Hall in New York City; was a fellow of the Nantional Repertory Orchestra and served as principal second violin and soloist with the orchestra in Colorado. She toured Japan three times with the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Edo de Waart and performed chamber music with the musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Zeng performed with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra as well as the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. As the concertmaster she also played with the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Zeng joined the first violin section of the Phoenix Symphony in 2006 and became a member of the Colorado Music Festival in 2008. She is also appointed concertmaster of the Chandler Symphony Orchestra in 2010.