William Zhu is a junior student from Illinois, USA. He has studied piano with Sueanne Metz since he was 5 years old. William won 2nd place at the US New Star Piano Competition (Group V) and 1st place at the Chinese Fine Arts Society 34th Music Festival in Honor of Confucius (senior division) in 2019. William also won prizes from a number of other competitions in previous years, including the American Fine Arts Festival International Concerto Competition (2018), the Great Composer Competition (2018), the ENKOR International Music Competition (2018), the US New Star Piano Competition (2018), the Carmel Klavier International Piano Competition (2017), the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition (2015), the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition (2015), the Society of American Musicians Competition (2014), and the American Fine Arts Festival (2011).