Zhao Yu, pianist and associate professor, began to practice the piano in Shanghai since childhood, studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music College, and graduated with a master's degree in piano. From 2008 to 2010, he taught at the Xinghai Music Academy. He is currently teaching at the Piano Department of the Conservatory of Music of Guangxi Academy of Fine Arts. He teaches piano undergraduate and postgraduate piano performances, postgraduate courses in Western piano art and piano practice. He has received many guidances from international piano masters including Fu Cong, Chen Hongkuan, Chen Bixian, Blakinsky, Boris Berman, Bashkirov and Paul Badulla-Skoda. His performance "exquisite skills, music is really moving", praised by experts. He has participated in many domestic and international piano competitions and won awards, including the 2006 China National Youth Piano Competition, the American E International Piano Competition, the American Hilton Hyde International Piano Competition, the Brazilian Villa Robles International Piano Competition, and the Chinese Music Golden Bell Award, the Golden Bell Piano Competition and so on.

As a performer, he participated in the Rachmaninov Trio Master Class in April 2007 and held a concert at the Shanghai Concert Hall. In June 2007, he participated in the chamber music master class organized by the Berger Quartet and the founder of the European Chamber Music Institute, and was praised as "the most talented trio in Asia". For many years, musicians who have collaborated and held concerts include the violinist Zuckerman, Godferhof, the flute player Dr. Watson and many more.