Biography
Born in Guangzhou, China, Danqi Zeng began her violin studies at the age of four. Ms. Zeng is an active performer and chamber musician on both modern violin and baroque violin. She has won in multiple competitions including the concerto competition at CCM (twice), the 2020 MASTA Solo Competition, the 2020-21 MTNA Michigan Young Artist Competition, and the 2022 London International Music Competition Chamber Music (Duo Florentes). Most recently, she was the semi-finalist in the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China in 2023, and the winner of the Historical Performance Institute Vivaldi Competition at IU in 2024 on baroque violin.
Ms. Zeng has performed as soloist with CCM Concert Orchestra, CCM Philharmonia, Starling Orchestra, and JSOM Baroque Orchestra. She served as the Concertmaster of University Philharmonia Orchestra at the University of Michigan from 2019 to 2020, and she had been the concertmaster of the CCM Concert Orchestra for multiple seasons. She has performed for renowned violinists including Zakhar Bron, Donald Weilerstein, Augustin Hadelich, James Ehnes, Yura Lee, Ben Sayevich, Feng Ning, Stefan Jackiw, and Jinjoo Cho. In past summers, she received scholarships to attend music festivals such as the Great Wall Festival, the High Peaks Music Festival, the Innsbrook Festival on scholarship, Bowdoin Festival, and Encore Festival as a violin fellow. She also served as the Associate Music Director of the Metropolitan Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Michigan in 2020.
Ms. Zeng is an experienced and passionate violin teacher who has taught a wide age range of students from children to older adults for over 7 years. Her teaching has an emphasis on helping students with building a solid foundation of the violin techniques as well as the ability to express personal emotions in the music. She has worked with precollege students in Ann Arbor, Cincinnati and Guangzhou, China.
Ms. Zeng has performed as soloist with CCM Concert Orchestra, CCM Philharmonia, Starling Orchestra, and JSOM Baroque Orchestra. She served as the Concertmaster of University Philharmonia Orchestra at the University of Michigan from 2019 to 2020, and she had been the concertmaster of the CCM Concert Orchestra for multiple seasons. She has performed for renowned violinists including Zakhar Bron, Donald Weilerstein, Augustin Hadelich, James Ehnes, Yura Lee, Ben Sayevich, Feng Ning, Stefan Jackiw, and Jinjoo Cho. In past summers, she received scholarships to attend music festivals such as the Great Wall Festival, the High Peaks Music Festival, the Innsbrook Festival on scholarship, Bowdoin Festival, and Encore Festival as a violin fellow. She also served as the Associate Music Director of the Metropolitan Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Michigan in 2020.
Ms. Zeng is an experienced and passionate violin teacher who has taught a wide age range of students from children to older adults for over 7 years. Her teaching has an emphasis on helping students with building a solid foundation of the violin techniques as well as the ability to express personal emotions in the music. She has worked with precollege students in Ann Arbor, Cincinnati and Guangzhou, China.