A Winning Duo

The Music Academy of the West has awarded its 2024 Duo Competition winners to cellist Shengyu Meng and pianist Yoshino Toi, with each receiving $5,000 cash and digital assets for career promotion.

Meng, from Shanghai, is earning her bachelor’s degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. She was former principal cellist at the California Young Artists Symphony.

Toi from Tokyo recently completed her performance diploma in collaborative piano as a graduate assistant at the Jacobs School of Music.

She begins her doctoral studies at the New England Conservatory in the fall.