He has attended masterclasses with Ivry Gitlis, Ani Schnarch, Schmuel Ashkenasi, Vadim Gluzman, Chaim Taub, and Petru Munteanu (in Keshet Eilon, Israel and Salzburg, Austria).

In June 2012 he was the recipient of the Szymon Goldberg Award of the Music Academy in Messen as the youngest participant in all age divisions.

In 2014 Ziyu won first prize representing Austria at the Eurovision Young Musician's Competition in Cologne which was broadcast on TV all over Europe and in November 2014 performed Prokofiev's 2nd Violin Concerto with the Mozarteum University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Graf.

38, MS 44, 1827 "Nel cor più non mi sento" by Niccolo Paganini at the 2016 Menuhin Competition.

He has performed at the Leopold Mozart Centre at Augsburg University and at the Schumann House in Leipzig in a concert in memory of Niccolò Paganini.