Ifetayo Ali-Landing showed at just age 6 how good she was with a cello in her arms. She was just 3 when she started playing the violin but at 4 she begged her mother to switch to the cello because she liked it’s mellow sounds!

She studied at the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute under very renowned teachers and now at 13 years old she “is the Junior Division 2nd Place Laureate of the 2016 Annual Sphinx Competition and performed as soloist with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. She was selected as one of the winners of the 2016 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers competition and performed as soloist with the Festival’s Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra. Over the years, she has placed or received honorable mentions for the Society of American Musicians (SAM) competition, Depaul Concerto Festival for Young Musicians competition, and the Music Festival in Honor of Confucius competition.
Ifetayo was honored at the Friends of the IPO Rising Stars Showcase in 2013 at age 10, when she recorded the 1st movement of the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor. To date, this video has over 23,000 views. She also recorded “Celtic Hymn” from Northern Skies for cello and piano by James MacMillan who discovered the video and complimented Ifetayo via Twitter. Her most recent YouTube recording is Cello Concerto No. 1, 1st Mvt by Dmitri Shostokovich.
Ifetayo also enjoys singing, dancing and playing piano.”

According to her bio on www.sphinxmusic.org.

See her performing at 6 and 13 below:

She is amazing!

Learn more about her here: http://www.sphinxmusic.org/bio-ifetayo-ali/