Born in 2002, LiLa began playing the cello at the age of seven. She studied with Professor Min Cao at the Music Middle School affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of nine. In 2016 she began to study in the Juilliard School Precollege division with Professor Richard Aaron and Sieun Lin. Since October 2018, LiLa has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. She plays a 1690s Giovanni Grancino Cello kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society.
In the 13th Osaka International Music Competition in 2012, LiLa won the first prize (second vacancy) of the string E1, the Best String Performance Award and the Kobe Mayor Award. In the 9th "Antonio Janigro" International Cello Competition in Croatia in 2012, LiLa participated in senior group and won the first prize. In the following year on the 24th Flame International Music Competition in Paris, she again won the first grand prize with full score given by all jurors. In 2014 LiLa reported in the 8th Tchaikovsky International competition for Young Musicians in Moscow, she won the first prize and became the youngest championship of cello competition for that time. She also won the 2nd in the 43rd Stulberg International String Competition in 2018.
LiLa has given concerts on many international stages such as the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Tsinandali Festival, Zürich Tonhalle, Schloss Elmau, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Tokyo Suntory Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, she has performed with the orchestras such as: Kremerata Baltica, Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra, Prague Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra, Beijing NCPA Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra “New Russia”. And conductor such as: Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Heiko Mathias Förster, Vladimir Spivakov, Yury Tkachenko and Muhai Tang. As a chamber musician, she shared the stage with Andras Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Antje Weithaas, Christian Tetzlaff, David Geringas, Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Amihai Grosz and Antoine Tamestit.

Musical Education

Shanghai Music Conservatory affiliated to middle school (2011-2016)
Juilliard Precollege Division (2016-2018)
Kronberg Academy/Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt (2018 - )

Cello Competitions

2012, 13th Osaka International Music Competition, first prize (second vacancy) of the string E1, the Best String Performance Award and the Kobe Mayor Award.

2012, 9th "Antonio Janigro" International Cello Competition in Croatia, senior group, first prize.

2013, 24th Flame International Music Competition in Paris, first grand prize with full score given by all jurors.

2014, 8th Tchaikovsky International competition for Young Musicians in Moscow, first prize, youngest championship in the cello section.

2018, 43rd Stulberg International String Competition, second prize winner in the string section.