Xi You
Ms. You has performed recitals, chamber music concerts and concertos with a broad repertoire from Bach to contemporary works throughout Switzerland, Spain, Italy, the United States, and in her native China. Her performances include major solo recitals at Carnegie Hall Weil Recital Hall in New York, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Chicago Fine Arts Center, Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Zurich Tonhalle, Zurich City Hall, St. James Church in London, Beijing Music Hall, and Kunming City Hall, among others. As a concerto soloist, Ms. You has performed with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Kunming Symphony Orchestra, London Arco String Orchestra and The Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music. Her performance was broadcast by Sino Radio in New York and China Radio International.
Ms. You present the premiere of Concerto “The Island” from Xu Zhi-Ton in 2006 Beijing Modern Music Festival. In October 2005, she gave the world premiere performance of Arturo Cuellar’s Fantasia in F for Piano and String Orchestra in London. January 2006, as the winner of “2005 Extraordinary Performance Award,” she was invited by “Artists International” to give a recital at Carnegie Hall Weil Recital Hall again. In Spring 2005, her Merkin Concert Hall debut was enthusiastically reviewed in the influential journal New York Concert Review. In the 2006-07 season, she will give solo recitals at Beijing Concert Hall, Guang Zhou Zhong Shan Concert Hall, Bogotá Grand Concert Hall and Stadthaus Zurich in Switzerland.
Ms. You present the premiere of Concerto “The Island” from Xu Zhi-Ton in 2006 Beijing Modern Music Festival. In October 2005, she gave the world premiere performance of Arturo Cuellar’s Fantasia in F for Piano and String Orchestra in London. January 2006, as the winner of “2005 Extraordinary Performance Award,” she was invited by “Artists International” to give a recital at Carnegie Hall Weil Recital Hall again. In Spring 2005, her Merkin Concert Hall debut was enthusiastically reviewed in the influential journal New York Concert Review. In the 2006-07 season, she will give solo recitals at Beijing Concert Hall, Guang Zhou Zhong Shan Concert Hall, Bogotá Grand Concert Hall and Stadthaus Zurich in Switzerland.
Ms. You was awarded the Concert Diploma and Soloist Diploma with the highest honor by the Zurich Conservatory in Switzerland as a student of Homero Francesch. While studying at Zurich Conservatory, she received a prestigious full scholarship from the Culture Department of Zurich City. In the United States, Ms. You again won a full scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music, where she received her Master’s of Music and Performance Diploma. During her studies in New York, her teachers were Solomon Mikowsky, Nina Svetlanova, and Robert McDonald. Xi You has played for Zhou Gung Ren, Rudolf Buchbinder, John Perry, Yeheved Kaplinsky, Paul Badula-Skoda and Richard Good. Her talent caught the attention of Maestro Alexis Weissenberg, who invited her to perform at his Festival in Switzerland, where she was awarded the Special Prize.” Ms. You was winner of the Kiwanis Music Prize in Switzerland and the “Artists International” award in New York.
Her unique mixture of brilliant technique, musical understanding and intuition make Xi You an extraordinary artist with a beautiful balance between strength, sense and sensibility.
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