Huiying Cao

Huiying Cao is a cellist currently pursuing her Master’s degree at The Tianjin Juilliard School, where she studies on full scholarship with Sihao He and Yeonjin Kim. She also serves as a mentor for the Pre-College Chamber Intensive Music Program. Huiying is a freelance cellist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and a substitute cellist with the New World Symphony. A multiple prizewinner in competitions, she has performed at festivals including the Aspen Music Festival and School (as a Fellow), Kronberg Academy, and Cello Akademie Rutesheim. Huiying is a graduate of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Li-Wei Qin and received the Geoffrey S. K. Yu Prize for Cello Performance. She also studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Sebastian Klinger, Solo Cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Her early musical training took place at the Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Mingqing Yu and Jia Yu.