Amelia Zitoun is currently a freshman at the Colburn School, studying cello with Clive Greensmith.

Most recently, Amelia won the 2nd prize at the 2024 Klein International String Competition. Last spring, she also was chosen as a finalist in the 2024 Concert Artists Guild competition. Amelia is the Gold Medal prize winner of the 2023 Stulberg International String Competition. Consequently, she has performed with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. In 2023, she won the Walgreens National Concerto Competition, and the first prize at the Bolz Final Forte Competition where she played multiple times with the Madison Symphony. In 2022, Amelia was the winner of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Stars of Tomorrow Competition. As a result, she has performed on numerous occasions with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. She was also a winner of the 2022 Civic Music Association of Milwaukee’s High School Competition. In both 2021 and 2023, Amelia won First Prize in the Schubert Club Competition. And in 2020 she was a winner of the DePaul Concerto Competition, performing with the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra.

Amelia is also an active chamber musician. As member of the Pelios String Quartet, she won the Silver Medal at the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Additionally, Pelios won the Gold Medal and Haydn Prize at the 2023 St. Paul String Quartet Competition. They were also awarded second prize in the Barnett Chamber Music Competition. In 2022, as a member of the Hermes Piano Trio, she competed in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In 2020, as a member of the Aurora Piano Quartet, her group won First Prize in the Rembrandt Chamber Music Competition.

In 2023, Amelia appeared as a soloist on Chicago’s WFMT: Introductions, a live radio program featuring young musicians. She has also appeared on the station multiple times as a member of the various chamber groups she played with.

In the summer of 2023 and 2024, Amelia attended the Perlman Music Program, a 7-week summer program led by Toby and Itzhak Perlman. In 2022, she attended the Heifetz International Music Institute, an intensive 6 week summer program located in Staunton, VA.

Prior to studying with Mr. Greensmith, Amelia studied with Hans Jørgen Jensen, and Horacio Contreras. Before attending Colburn, she was a Merit Scholar at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy for 5 years.