Eight-year-old violinist Leia Zhu was recently named the winner of the 2015 International Competition "Young Virtuosos" in Sofia, Bulgaria — the youngest ever to do so.
She won the violin category (which included young performers up to age 11) with performances of Vladigerov’s Fairy Tale, Manuel de Falla’s Spanish Dance, and Wieniawski's "Concerto no. 2," which you can watch in the video below.
Her young career has taken off since receiving her first violin at the age of three and a half. She made her solo debut at age four in the Last Night of the Proms (in front of an audience of thousands), and since then has won numerous awards and competitions, as well as touring Europe as a soloist.
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