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Harpist Yinuo Mu has performed concerts in a wide range of venues in Asia, Europe and the United States. Yinuo is the first harpist to capture the overall First Prize in the American String Teacher Association’s National Solo Competition, which was open to all string instrumentalists. She is also a winner of the American Harp Society’s Ann Adams Award, and a finalist in both the USA International Harp Competition and the Lily Laskine International Harp Contest in France. Her other honors and awards include the Alice Chalifoux Prize from the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Tanglewood Fellowship in 2005, and the Salzedo Colony Scholarship in 2001. Yinuo has been featured as a soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra and the Oberlin College String Orchestra in the US, and has participated as a key performer at prestigious festivals including Tanglewood Music Festival, Spoleto USA and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.

An avid chamber and ensemble musician, Yinuo has appeared in concerts collaborating with internationally renowned artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Renee Fleming, Debra Voigt, Ann Sophie Von Otter, Bryn Terfel, Marcello Giordani and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. She has performed a number of U.S and world premiers with several new music ensembles in the United States. An accomplished orchestral harpist, she has performed with the Boston Symphony, Houston Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, New world Symphony, Florida Grand Opera, China National Center of Performing Arts Orchestra, and with conductors including James Levine, Valery Gergiev, Fabio Luisi, Hans Graf, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, David Zinman, Jahja Lin and John Williams. Her performances have taken her to such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, New York; Severance Hall, Cleveland; Symphony Hall, Boston; Knight Hall, Miami; Suntory Hall, Tokyo; and the Grand Opera Hall at the National Centre of Performing Arts, Beijing.

A native of Qingdao, China, Yinuo began her musical training on the piano at age five. She began her harp studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Yinuo holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied under the direction of world-renowned harp soloist Yolanda Kondonassis. She subsequently furthered her harp studies with Dr. Ann Hobson Pilot at the Boston University School of Fine Arts, where she received her Graduate Diploma in harp performance. Yinuo also studied with Joan Holland at the Interlochen Arts Academy and with the legendary harp pedagogue Alice Chalifoux at the Salzedo Harp Colony in Camden, Maine.