Xuan Yao

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Violinist Xuan Yao performs actively as a soloist and chamber musician based in Philadelphia. She is the violinist of Trio Armure, which was founded in 2023, as well as with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey, and Symphony in C. She also performs regularly in Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Xuan is a prize-winner of numerous national competitions in her native China, including First Prize of Hunan Province Soloist Competition in 2002, First Prize of Chinese Junior New Artist competition, and Grand Prize of Changsha Soloist competition (2003). In the United States, she received second prize in the Pi Kappa Lambda Competition in 2017 and was a First Prize winner of Young Talents World Festival of Performing Arts in 2018 and Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition in 2021. Xuan has performed in numerous international music festivals, including Mozarteum Salzburg, Summit Music Festival in New York, and iPalpiti Music Festival in Los Angeles. Born in Changsha, China, Xuan Yao began to learn violin at age four and later studied with Weijian Tang in the middle school of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 2010, Xuan was accepted to Temple University in Philadelphia on a full scholarship to study with Professor Eduard Schmieder in his select international violin class at Boyer College in the Center of Performing Arts, where she received her Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees. A recipient of the Garrigues Scholarship and the Helen Kwawalsser Award, Xuan was a teaching assistant in Prof. Schmieder's studio. Currently, Xuan is pursuing her Professional Performance Diploma at Manhattan School of Music, where she studies with Koichiro Harada and Lucie Robert.

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