Biography

Born 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. Since October 2018, LiLa has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. She plays a 1690s Giovanni Grancino cello kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society.
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 the 24th 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, Moscow
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Tokyo Suntory Hall. She has worked with the orchestras such as: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, 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. As a chamber musician, she shared the stage with Steven Isserlis, Gidon Kremer, David Geringas, Tabea Zimmermann and Antoine Tamestit.

One highlight of the season 2022/23 is LiLa’s Grand Tour throughout China with more than 20 concerts as a soloist with orchestras and as a chamber musician as well.

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Concerto repertoire

Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 56

Schelomo – Hebrew Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra

Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68

Concerto for Cello in B-flat Major G.482

Concerto for Cello in B Minor, Op. 104/B 191

Concerto for Cello in E Minor, Op. 85

Concerto for Cello No. 1 in C Major, H 7b no 1
Concerto for Cello No. 2 in D Major, Op. 101/H 7b no 2

Cello Concerto in D Minor

Sinfonia Concertante in E Minor, Op. 125

Concerto for Cello No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33

Concerto for Cello in A Minor

Concerto for Cello No. 1 in E flat Major, Op. 107

Don Quixote, Op. 35

Variations for Cello and Orchestra on Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Double Cello Concerto in G Minor RV 531

Cello Concerto, Op. 68

– LiLa (cello), Julia Hamos (piano) –

Program 2

Romance for Piano and Violoncello, Op. 69

Sonata for Piano and Violoncello, FP 143

Suite for Violoncello Solo

—— Intermission ——

Berceuse Op. 16

Sonata for Piano and Violoncello in G minor, Op. 65

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Program 3

Pohádka

Three Romances, Op. 94

Pampeana No. 2, Rhapsody for Cello and Piano, Op. 21

—— Intermission ——

Suite Populaire Espagnole

Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major

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Programm 4

Suite Italienne

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano No. 3 in A Major

——— Intermission ———

– Valse Sentimentale arranged for cello and piano

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano No. 2, Op. 99

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Programm 5 (cello, bandoneon, piano)

– LiLa (cello), Omar Massa (composition, bandoneon), Julia Hamos (piano) –

compositions + arrangements for cello, bandoneon

Cafe 1930

– Tango Lullaby
– Caminos y Desvios

compositions + arrangements for cello, bandoneon and piano

– Tangata (10 min)

Omar Massa
– Tango Meditation n1 (4:30 min)
– Buenos Aires Ritual (4:40 min)
– Buenos Aires Resonances (5 min)
– Kageliana (4 min)
– Canto del Payun Matru (5 min)
– Tango Legacy (5:30 min)
Tango Scherzo (Encore)

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