LiLa

cello

2022
Chamber Music Connects the World, participant
2019, 2021, 2022
Kronberg Festival, concert
2018-2019
Kronberg Academy Precollege
2019-2021
Kronberg Academy Bachelor
2021-2022
Kronberg Academy Master
2022
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies with Frans Helmerson, funded by the Christa Verhein foundation

Born in China in 2002, 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.

In the 13th Osaka International Music Competition in 2012, LiLa won the first prize, the Best String Performance Award and the Kobe Mayor Award. In the 9th "Antonio Janigro" International Cello Competition in Croatia in 2012, LiLa participated in senior group and won the first prize. In the following year on the24th Flame International Music Competition in Paris, she again won the first grand prize with full score given by all jurors. In 2014 LiLa reported in the 8th Tchaikovsky International competition for Young Musicians in Moscow, she won the first prize and became the youngest championship of this competition. She also won the 2nd prize in the 43rd 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, Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Tokyo Suntory Hall. She has worked with the orchestras such as: Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, the State Symphony Orchestra “New Russia”, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra. And conductor such as: Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Spivakov, Yury Tkachenko, Norichika Iimori, Muhai Tang. As a chamber musician, she shared the stage with Steven Isserlis, Christian Tetzlaff, 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.

Since October 2018, LiLa has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson, generously made possible through the Christa Verhein foundation. 


Last updated: February 2024
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
FreundschaftsSpiele

JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS II

Jansen, Grosz, Blendulf, Kozhukhin, Students of Kronberg Academy

Participants

  • Janine Jansen violin
  • Pauline van der Rest violin
  • Hana Chang violin
  • Amihai Grosz viola
  • Sào Soulez Larivière viola
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • Daniel Blendulf cello
  • LiLa cello
  • Benjamin Kruithof cello
  • Denis Kozhukhin piano

Programme

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Quartet movement in C minor D 703

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Piano quartet Nr. 3 in C minor op. 60

Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)
„Verklärte Nacht“ in C minor for string sextet op. 4

Subject to change.

Tickets
35 / 45 / 55 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
FreundschaftsSpiele

JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS III

Jansen, Grosz, Blendulf, Kozhukhin, Students of Kronberg Academy

Participants

  • Janine Jansen violin
  • Anna Im violin
  • Ruslan Talas violin
  • Pauline van der Rest violin
  • Amihai Grosz viola
  • Sào Soulez Larivière viola
  • Haesue Lee viola
  • Daniel Blendulf cello
  • LiLa cello
  • Petar Pejčić cello
  • Dominik Wagner double bass
  • Denis Kozhukhin piano

Programme

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Sonata in C major for two violins op. 56

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Piano quartet Nr. 2 in E flat major op. 87

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Metamorphoses for string septet

Subject to change.

Tickets
25 / 35 €
Carl Bechstein Saal, Casals Forum
Mittwochskonzerte

LiLa – Kreutzer's Shadow

LiLa, H. C. Aavik, Sant'Anna, Shaham, K. Aavik

Participants

  • LiLa cello

Programme

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”
I. Adagio - Con moto
II. Con moto
III. Con moto - Vivace - Andante - Adagio
IV. Con moto - Adagio - Maestoso

Caroline Shaw (1982)
“Blueprint” (2016) for String Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
I. Allegro con brio
II. Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto
III. Allegro - Allegro fugato

Further participants
Hans Christian Aavik - Violine
Guido Sant’anna - Violine
Noga Shaham - Viola
Karolina Aavik - Piano

The program and concert flyer will be designed individually by the students.
 

MittwochsKonzerte as a package.
Here you can book five concerts for the price of four.

Tickets
24 €
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Johannis, Ansbach
Kronberg Academy on Tour

BACH – BACHIANA – BACHARACH

Coetzee, Friedensburg, LiLa, Pejčić, Skanavi, Zeller

Participants

  • Luka Coetzee cello
  • Clara Yuna Friedensburg cello
  • LiLa cello
  • Petar Pejčić cello
  • Ivan Skanavi cello
  • Arne Zeller cello

Programme

Pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alfredo Piatti, Burt Bacharach.

Tickets
16.5 / 38.5 / 63.72 / 74.52 €
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Johannis, Ansbach
Kronberg Academy on Tour

Bach-Sprechstunde 1: Die Suiten für Violoncello solo

LiLa, Pejčić

Participants

  • LiLa cello
  • Petar Pejčić cello

Programme

The Suites for Solo Cello

 

Tickets
22 €
Großer Saal, Casals Forum
Kronberg Festival - K8

SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF / KRONBERG YOUNG SOLOISTS

Chang, Sant'Anna, M. Shaham, N. Shaham, LiLa, Lipstein, Schiff

Participants

  • Hana Chang violin
  • Guido Sant’Anna violin
  • Michael Shaham violin
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • LiLa cello
  • Manuel Lipstein cello
  • Sir András Schiff piano

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, op. 49

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
„Kreutzer-Sonate“ No. 9 in A major. op. 47

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat major, op. 47

Subject to change.

Tickets
40 / 50 / 60 €
Wigmore Hall London
Kronberg Academy on Tour

Wigmore Hall

Chang, Sant'Anna, M. Shaham, N. Shaham, LiLa, Lipstein, Schiff

Participants

  • Hana Chang violin
  • Guido Sant’Anna violin
  • Michael Shaham violin
  • Noga Shaham viola
  • LiLa cello
  • Manuel Lipstein cello
  • Sir András Schiff piano

Programme

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 „Kreutzersonate”

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47

Subject to change.

TICKETS
18 / 27 / 33 / 37 / 40 £