Sophia Zhang, violin

Meet Sophia

Sophie performs on Show 463.

Sophia Zhang (violin), 15, from Tenafly, New Jersey, is a sophomore at Tenafly High School. She has been a member of the Grammy Award-winning New York Youth Symphony since 2022 and is currently a student at Juilliard Pre-College (class of ’27). She attended Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute Summer Festival in 2023 and Heifetz Institute Summer Program in 2024. In addition to music, Sophia has a strong passion for neuroscience; she is currently working as a student intern at the Liang Laboratory at NYU’s Langone Health Institute. She wrote a research paper on Alzheimer’s’ disease for the Harvard Undergraduate Journal earlier this year.

Outside of these interests, she enjoys playing tennis, hiking, and drawing.