Zhechao Xie is a modern violist and a baroque violist from (Suzhou) China. She is alumni? by/from Tabea Zimmermann. She did the Soloist-Master for modern viola and baroque viola both subjects at the University of Arts in Berlin with Hartmut Rohde and Irmgard Huntgeburth. Since 2015 she studies baroque viola at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Enrico Gatti. As a baroque violist, she plays with many professional baroque ensembles, like Academy Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Academia Montis Regalis in Italy with Alessandro De Marchi, Ambronay European Baroque Academy in France with Enrico Onofri, Les Arts Florissants William Christie. In 2015 she is invited by Dresdner Festspielorchester work together with Ivor Bolton and Isabelle Faust. As a modern violist, Zhechao is active in various music festivals and masterclasses, coached by Nobuko Imai, Antoine Tamestit, Stefan Fehlandt, Thomas Riebl… she played as an academician in Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. Her Quartett won the third prize of Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Shanghai. She won the First Prize of Ernst Viola Competition in Austria, In 2014 she is laureate of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Ad Infinitum Foundation Scholarship.

She entered in Shanghai Conservatory when she was 15 years old. She was many time as a deputy for Shanghai Conservotory, to attend to culture exchange project perform in Europa.

2011 Zhechao went to Berlin, studied Viola Master in Hanns Eisler school of music with Pauline Sachse and Tabea Zimmerman, also coached with Kolja Blacher and Wayne Foster Smith… In the second year of her Master she played as an academician in Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. After her Master graduation, she embarked on playing baroque viola. and engaged/occupied in the Soloist-Master for modern viola and baroque viola both subjects at the University of Arts in Berlin with Hartmut Rohde and Irmgard Huntgeburth. Since 2015 she studies baroque viola at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with Enrico Gatti.