Jiaxun Yao
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Jiaxun is completing a bachelor’s degree at The Juilliard School studying with Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy. Jiaxun won First Place in the 2021 Orchestra 914 Concerto Competition (Senior Division) and took Second Prize and Best Performance of a Commissioned Work in the 2022 Irving Klein International String Competition. She has performed as a soloist with the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony and Qingdao Symphony Orchestra, and in recital at the Tianjin Juilliard Recital Hall. Jiaxun also performed with pianist Giacomo Franci at Carnegie Hall in the Weill Recital Room.
