Zou Zou
Robidoux
Cellist and String Arranger
ZOU ZOU ROBIDOUX is a Wisconsin-based cellist working across classical and contemporary genres. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying with Dr. James Waldo as a Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. Prior to her graduate studies, Zou Zou lived in Montreal from 2016-2024. During this time, she performed throughout Canada in band, musical theater, and orchestral settings, including performances at the Montreal Jazz Festival, National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, and Vancouver Folk Festival. As a studio musician in the Montreal scene, Zou Zou collaborated with members of Arcade Fire, The Weather Station, and U.S. Girls, and was featured as a cellist and string arranger on two of Basia Bulat’s studio albums, The Garden and Are You In Love?
Zou Zou received her B.Mus. in Cello Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied with Uri Vardi on a full-tuition scholarship. Following her degree, Zou Zou served as the cellist of the Nightingale String Quartet at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), where she also performed the Elgar Cello Concerto as a soloist with the UNR Symphony Orchestra. A passionate collaborator, Zou Zou has performed as a chamber musician with Bach Before Bedtime,Willy Street Chamber Players, among others. In 2022, Zou Zou founded ChamberFest at the Spring Green General Store (ChamberFest), a chamber music festival in Spring Green, WI. For their 2024 season, ChamberFest partnered with the Listen Closely Collective to present additional children’s and chamber music concerts at the Bayview Foundation and Grace Church in Madison, WI. As an orchestral musician, Zou Zou has worked with the Reno Philharmonic, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, Pronto Musica, and Orchestre de la francophonie, with whom she toured South Korea.
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An avid lover of musicals, Zou Zou has played in over 30 musical theater productions across the U.S. and Canada. In 2022, Zou Zou made her professional acting debut at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, originating the role of Music in the English adaptation of Keren Peles' musical April Fools. Other highlights of her pit work include a Yiddish and English production of It Shoulda Been You with the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre at the Segal Centre, Sisters: The Belles Soeurs Musical with Theatre Calgary, and the world premiere of the French-language version of The Phantom of the Opera at le Monument-National.