Biography

Born in 2002 in China, LiLa began playing the cello at the age of seven. She studied with Professor Min Cao at the Music Middle School affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of nine. In 2016, she began to study in the Juilliard School Precollege division with Professor Richard Aaron and Sieun Lin. Since October 2018, LiLa has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson.

She’s a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensiv weeks and activities of the academy.

In the „13^th Osaka International Music Competition“ in 2012, LiLa won the 1^st prize, the „Best String Performance Award“ and the „Kobe Mayor Award“. In the 9^th „Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition“ in Croatia in 2012, LiLa participated in senior group and won the 1^st prize. In the following year at the 24^th „Flame International Music Competition“ in Paris, she again won the 1^st Grand Prize with full score given by all jurors. In 2014, LiLa reported in the „8^th Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians“ in Moscow, she won the 1^st prize and became the youngest championship of this competition. She also won the 2^nd prize in the „43^rd Stulberg International String Competition“ in 2018.

LiLa has given concerts on many international stages such as the Verbier Festival, Schloss Elmau, Tsinandali Festival, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall as well as in the Tokyo Suntory Hall. She has worked with the orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, the Moscow Virtuosi, the State Symphony Orchestra New Russia, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Spivakov, Yury Tkachenko and Norichika Iimori.

As a chamber musician, she shared the stage with Steven Isserlis, Gidon Kremer, David Geringas, Tabea Zimmermann and Antoine Tamestit.

She plays a 1690s Giovanni Grancino cello kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society.