Hayley Lau
Violin/Viola Tutor
Hayley is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Music at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, studying under the mentorship of Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec on a full scholarship. Prior to her studies in New York, she was part of the Rising Stars Program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied with Fox Chan from the age of eight. During this time, she received the Arthur Cunningham Scholarship and the Victor Cromack & Melba Harris Cromack Memorial Scholarship.
Hayley has achieved numerous accolades in competitions both locally and internationally. In 2021, she and violinist Isabella Sun won multiple sections of the New South Wales Secondary School Concerto Competition. In 2023, Hayley was honored as the Overall Winner and received the KPO Players Award in the solo category of the same competition. Additionally, she was a prizewinner in the Alf & Pearl Pollard Memorial Instrumental Awards for Performance Excellence, the Galston Young Violists Performance Competition, the American Virtuoso International Music Competition, the Hong Kong International Music Festival and the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Competition (Solo Category).
In 2023, Hayley was the only applicant from Australia accepted into the highly selective Morningside Music Bridge program where she received full scholarship to study with some of the world’s most renowned musicians.
In addition to her accomplishments as a soloist, Hayley is a dedicated chamber musician. Her chamber group won second prize and the Flinders Quartet Mentorship Prize at the Musica Viva Strike A Chord National Chamber Music Championship in 2022. The group also participated in a week-long intensive residency at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) in 2022, performing at the Galston Concert, the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival and ANAM.
In 2024, Hayley was selected by the Heifetz International Music Institute as the youngest Chamber Music Fellow and received a full scholarship to participate in a six-week chamber music seminar, studying with Shmuel Ashkenasi, Nicholas Kitchen, and Ralph Kirshbaum. In the same year, she also performed as a soloist with Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra and Penrith Symphony Orchestra in Australia.