Nancy Zhou (born January 5, 1993) is a Chinese-American classical violinist.
Zhou studied with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory and also took lessons from Paul Kantor[5] and David Nadien..[6] She graduated from Harvard University in 2017.
[7] Zhou also acknowledges the mentorship of violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Weigang Li, as well as of Augustin Dumay,[8] with whom she studied at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium, where she earned an Artist Diploma and later held the title of Associate Artist.
She has collaborated with conductors Zhang Jiemin, Michael Stern, Christopher Seaman, Xian Zhang, Sakari Oramo, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Ken-David Masur, Anna-Maria Helsing (sv), Atso Almila, Jurjen Hempel (nl), John Storgårds, Junping Qian, Hu Yongyan, Jaap van Zweden, Adam Klocek, Jaime Laredo, Peter Oundjian, Garrett Keast, Sergey Smbatyan, Gábor Hontvári (de), Eun Sun Kim, Christoph Poppen, Muhai Tang, Dongmin Kim, Lio Kuokman, Jeffrey Kahane, Sameer Patel, and Hannu Lintu.
Zhou teaches violin as a member of the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.