Isabella Liu is a 14-year-old cellist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Classically trained since the age of nine, she currently plays with three orchestras in the greater Boston area: the Tufts Youth Philharmonic, which she joined in 2014, the Reading Symphony Orchestra, joined in 2016, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summer Philharmonic Orchestra, joined in 2016. In February she received the award of Runner-up in the Tufts Youth Philharmonic Concerto Competition, performing Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto in A minor at their Winter Benefit Concert. Along with her brother and sister, Isabella is one of the youngest licensed buskers in Cambridge history. As one-third of the classical pop trio The Imaginators, she has performed cello at many music festivals in the area, such as the Cambridge Arts Council’s Annual River Festival, the 9th Annual Harvard Square Make Music Festival, the First Annual Asian-American Day in Boston Common, and the Ivy League Spring Festival Gala at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater, among others. Isabella is passionately committed to forging a career as a performance cellist.
