Ke Zhu, violinist of the MILA Quartet, was a prize winner of the 13th Menuhin international violin competition in England and 6th Tchaikovsky international competition for young musician in Korea. He also won the first prize of Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition in the US and the “Jin Zhong” String Quartet Competition in China. Zhu has participated in the Juilliard String Quartet seminar, Kronberg Academy, Morningside Music Bridge in Calgary and Texas Music Festival.  
  
At the age of 4, Zhu learned the violin from his grandfather, and then studied in the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Violin Performance at the Manhattan School of Music and earned a Master of Music degree at The Tianjin Juilliard School. His teachers include Weigang Li, Wei He, Guillaume Sutre, Lucie Robert and Weidong Tong. 
 
Zhu is currently an assistant chamber music coach at Tianjin Juilliard Pre-College and a violin teacher at Tianjin Juilliard’s Public Education Music Development Program. He was a guest teacher at Shanghai Technology University in 2023.