Born in Shanghai, China violin virtuoso Jue Yao studied violin at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Middle School under Shuzhen Tan and continued her studies with full scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Zaven Melikian. She graduated from the Juilliard School of New York where she studied under Dorothy DeLay before embarking on an impressive professional career characterized with widely acclaimed performances in Asia, Europe, and the United States and appearances on radio and television in China and the US, including telecast live concerts in Los Angeles, Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan.Yao made her New York recital debut before a standing room only audience at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 1993 and has performed in major international festivals such as the Ravinia Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Yachats Music Festival and Macau International Music Festival and in such prestigious halls such as The Avery Fisher Hall and The Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Herbst Theater and The Tchaikovsky Hall.Orchestra with which she has performed include Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Russia Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Suk Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Century Symphony Orchestra of Japan, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, china National Symphony, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Yao was the featured soloist with the China National Symphony Orchestra on their triumphant Mexico tour in 2000. Yao was appointed by the Hong Kong Government to be the Council Member of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. And she is also a member of the Programme Committee of the Hong Kong Arts Festival society. Yao is the founder of the ‘Yao Jue Music Academy’ and the ‘Hong Kong Children’s Chamber Orchestra in Hong Kong’. Her achievements and dedication to music education has won her numerous accolades over the years, including the ‘Outstanding Violinist Rado Timeless Award’ in 2002 and ‘Ten Outstanding Young Persons’ in Hong Kong in 2004. This season Yao’s performance schedule takes her to Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Prague, Singapore and Austria.