A native of Hunan, China, Zhu started learning piano at the age of five. He is a graduate of the Music Middle School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Zhe Tang, and Fou Ts’ong. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School and is currently pursuing his post-baccalaureate diploma at Curtis Institute of Music, under the tutelage of Robert McDonald. Zhu was awarded

• First Prize in the 2020 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions
• First prize winner of the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition, Hilton Head Young Artist Piano Competition
• Juilliard Gina Bachauer International Scholarship Piano Competition
• Recipient of the Juilliard Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship.