Cheryl Zhang

Cheryl Zhang attneds Carnegie Mellon University studying with Professor Alberto Almarza. She will be pursuing a Bachelor of Humanities and the Arts with a concentration in flute performance. She was previously principal flute in the Young Artists of America Orchestra and piccolo player for the MCYO Philharmonic Orchestra. In the past she has attended Brevard Summer Festival in the high school orchestra division, where she played principal flute and piccolo roles in the Brevard Concert Orchestra and Brevard Symphonic Winds, and was a semi-finalist in the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition. She has performed in several masterclasses at The Consummate Flutist at Carnegie Mellon University, she is a National Society of Arts & Letters Honor Recipient, and she has played piccolo for the Maryland Senior All State Band. She was a part of the National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Associates Program, as well as the Strathmore Young Musicians Training Residency. As a winner of the YMIC Metropolitan Music Festival, she was invited to perform at the Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria. She also won first place at the Gaithersburg Young Artist Award competition and teaches both flute and piano privately. In high school Cheryl studied with Ms. Amal Gochenour of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.