Miaojun Xu
B i o g r a p h y
Miaojun Xu
Pianist and Collaborative Pianist
As a native of China, Miaojun Xu appeared as a young solo pianist with wide repertoire and performed concerts in cities of Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Qingdao and Nanjing. In the United States, Miaojun Xu is beginning to build her solo pianist career with performances in Columbia, Atlanta and San Jose. Also Miaojun Xu has travelled to Europe for master classes and performance in Spain and Italy.
As a collaborative pianist, Miaojun Xu, featured as “a good listener” (From Viola professor, Dr. Constance Gee), has cooperated with a variety of instrumentalists and given performances both in the United States and Italy. Particularly, Miaojun Xu was nominated by Dr. Constance Gee as the viola studio accompanist for four years in University of South Carolina School of Music. Also, with her fervent love of chamber music, Miaojun Xu has performed Dvorak and Beethoven in the Chamber section of “Burgos International Music Festival” in Spain.
Through her hard work and sincere passion for music, Miaojun Xu has received prizes from all of the world. At age of 17, Miaojun Xu won her first international prize in “17th Young Musician International Competition “Citta di Barletta” where she won first prize. In 2012 and 2013, Miaojun Xu attended the Burgos International Music Festival, and won the third prize of the competition section with all instruments. She also won the first prize in the Impressionistic section of the "Atlanta Teacher Music Association" competition. Also in 2013, Miaojun Xu was invited to the Music Fest Perugia and made her solo concerto debut with Perugia Festival Orchestra under the baton of Uri Segal.
Miaojun Xu is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at The Boston Conservatory of Music, where she studies piano performance with Professor Janice Weber. Miaojun Xu received her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of South Carolina with Dr. Marian Lomazov where she graduated magma cum laude. Miaojun’s next project will be to pursue another Collaborative degree in order to build her own chamber music ensemble.
