Homecoming: US-based Malaysian violinist set to make his big MPO debut

Low is currently studying at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and is based in Los Angeles. He will return to Kuala Lumpur on Nov 25 for a performance at the DFP. Photo: Dewan Filharmonik Petronas

When he was three, violinist Low Zi Yang, 19, was already playing the piano. But it was when he was four, he said, that his aunt suggested to his father that the toddler should play the violin instead.

Little that Low knew then, that the instrument would go on to shape his passion and vocation.