Xiaoyi XU

22 August 1993

China

She began to study piano at the age of 4, later she attended the Hongkong Academy for Performing Arts, obtaining a “first class honored” bachelor’s degree under Eleanor Wong, with full scholarship. She holds the master’s degree from The Juilliard School with scholarship, and is currently a student of the master of music programme at the Yale School of Music, under Peter Serkin. She is the winner and laureate of many international and national piano competitions since the early years, and as a soloist, she toured throughout China, the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Hongkong. In the recent season, she made her debut in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York and gave a concert in the Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music.

REPERTOIRE:

PRELIMINARY

Bartók: Suite, BB 70

Brahms: Ballade in D major, op. 10/2

Dohnányi: Concert Etude in E major, op. 28/1

Liszt: Grandes Études de Paganini – Étude No. 3 in G-sharp minor (ʻLa campanellaʼ)

SEMI-FINAL

Bartók: Sonata, BB 88

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, op. 111 – 1. Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato

Dániel Dobos: Drumul Dracului

FINAL

Schumann: Fantasie in C major, op. 17

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, op. 19 (ʻSonata-Fantasyʼ)

GRAND FINAL

Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2, BB 101