Davis You

Special Soloist

Cellist Davis You, 16, is a junior at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, CA. He currently studies cello with Jonathan Koh and previously has studied with Irene Sharp. Davis has performed concertos with the Prometheus Symphony as the winner of the 2018 Felix Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition, and with the California Youth Symphony as the winner of the 2017 Young Artist Competition. His other awards include honorable mention in the 2019 National YoungArts Competition, first place in the 2018 KAMSA Competition, semifinalist in the 2018 Klein International String Competition, semifinalist at the 2017 Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, and first place in the 2016 California ASTA Solo Competition.

An avid chamber musician, Davis currently plays in a string quartet as part of the Young Chamber Musicians program. Previously, as a member of Trio Sonoro, he won second prize in the 2018 Galante Competition at San Francisco State University. In the 2018 Music@Menlo festival, he performed in several chamber ensembles as a Koret Young Performer. Davis is also a member of the San Francisco division of the Bach to Bach Project, a program that reaches out to schools and presents classical music to children across the world.

January 2019