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Alice Chenyang Xu, Piano

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Alice Chenyang Xu, Piano

Biography

Since her solo debut in 1996, Alice Chenyang Xu, a native of Sichuan, China, has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in the US, Canada, and in the Chinese cities of Hong Kong, Sichuan, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, among others. Ms. Xu has collaborated with the Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM) at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and her performances have been broadcast frequently on WFMT over the past few years.  Most recently, she performed in Chicago’s Symphony Center as part of the Keys to the City Festival.  Ms. Xu is also the winner of the 2012 Chicago College for the Performing Arts Solo Competition and made an appearance with the CCPA symphony orchestra in the 2012-2013 season VIVID finale concert at the Auditorium Theatre in April, 2013.

Ms. Xu has won numerous national and international awards, including second prize in the 2004 Southern Missouri International Piano Competition, third prize in the 2nd SEILER International Piano Competition in Germany, and she was the recipient of the 2003-2004 season YAMAHA scholarship for talented young musicians’ award.       

Ms. Xu entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2004 where she studied with Seymour Lipkin, and held the Yvonne K. Druian Fellowship. While at Curtis, Ms. Xu has studied with Meng-Chieh Liu and Gary Graffman during summers and participated in master classes with world-leading soloists and professors, such as Jonathan Biss, Robert McDonald, Richard Goode, among others.  Beginning in 2009, she continued her piano studies with Meng-Chieh Liu and Dr. Winston Choi at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, and is currently studying at the New England Conservatory of Music under Wha-Kyung Byun.

She worked with American composer George Crumb on his set of piano pieces, “Makrocosmos”, and has played for General Colin Powell at the Northeast Asia 2006 Regional Program Seminar dinner and the Eisenhower Fellowships in Philadelphia.

In addition to performing, Ms. Xu teaches regularly and has been actively working as accompanist for instrumentalists and soloists since 2006.


Performances by Alice Chenyang Xu

Composer Title Date Action
Robert Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9 04/10/2014 Play Add to playlist
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue in c-sharp minor from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I 04/10/2014 Play Add to playlist

Alice Chenyang Xu Concerts

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