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Meet Rosy, Cellist

Rosy Zhang is a cellist from Toronto. Born into a family of musicians who immigrated to Canada at the top of the 1990s from China. Rosy was brought up biculturally in an "East meets West" household. With 3 native tongues including Mandarin, Cantonese and English, Rosy also learned to be fluent in German and is proficient in French.  After her Masters degree from the Manhattan School of Music as a cellist, she began to explore herself as a multi-faceted artist; she brought the house down in a room full of magicians with an impromptu card act in Beijing, played the cello, piano and a double-part in the play "RICE and Fry" at the Infiniti Music Hall in Markham, Canada, music directed for the magical musical spectacle "Ocean of Dreams" at the celebration square of the Shanghai Expo in China... where Rosy's path leads is anyone's guess, but one thing is for sure, it will be a fun one filled with adventure and creativity!

 

Toronto-native Rosalind Zhang is a cellist who adapts to her ever-changing surroundings. Raised by a family of professional musicians, she spent her formative years immersed creatively, having trained in acting, improvisation, movement, visual arts, creativity, and dance. She obtained certification as an Associate of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto in Piano Performance before she officially accepted her admission to the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, majoring in cello alone. After receiving her Bachelor degree and an Advanced Certificate in Performance, she moved to New York and continued her cello studies at the Manhattan School of Music.

Past performances have taken her across China & Canada; she also joined the China National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on their 2017 US Tour. The year after, Rosalind performed at the sold-out “Ocean of Dreams” event at the 10,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. One can hear her cello lines in the 2019 critically-acclaimed Chinese animated film, “White Snake”. Rosalind is also the creator of a Music History program for students in Canada and China, which currently features presentations spanning from music of the Stone Age to Rachmaninoff and Ravel. When she is not making music, Rosalind cultivates her other interests. She is an aspiring polyglot who wants to see, discover, and make more connections in the world. She is chooses to be a lifelong learner and strives for a zero-waste and plant-based lifestyle.

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