About Me

Xinzhuo Li began studying piano at the age of 5. She received her bachelor of music degree in musicology from Northeast Normal University in 2019. Xinzhuo was admitted to Northeast Normal University with first place in Heilongjiang Province in 2015, studying piano with piano department chair Xin Qiao, Guohong Chen, and Russian piano professor Konstantin Kartashov. And she won the first prize in the Yamaha Music Scholarship in 2015. In 2019, she graduated from Longy School of Music of Bard College, studying under the piano chair Donald Berman. And Xinzhuo Li is pursuing her Doctorate degree in piano performance since 2021, she earned the in-state scholarship and Competitive Graduate Piano Performance scholarship from UNT and study with Joseph Banowetz and Dr.Liudmila Georgievskaya.

In 2024, Xinzhuo Li won the first prize for piano solo and second prize for chamber music in 6th SWISS International Music Competition. In 2017, Xinzhuo won the second prize at the professional youth group of the Jilin Province of China in the Main International Music Festival and Clara Schumann International Piano Competition. In the same year, she won the second prize of the "Chopin Memorial Award" at Hong Kong-International Piano Open Class, Jilin District Haydn Sonata Group, and the second prize of the "Chopin Memorial Award" Hong Kong-International Piano Open Class, Jilin Division Chopin Polonaise Group. She attended the new music festival ‘Divergent studio’ in 2021. Moreover, she performed as a piano soloist in Guangzhou, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Boston, Manhattan, and Washington D.C., and had masterclasses with Gila Goldstein, Christopher Guzman, Alexander Kobrin, Alan Chow.

Xinzhuo has engaged in piano teaching for many years and experienced three Internships in primary school, middle school, and junior high school respectively. In addition, she also focused on music enlightenment education, music history, and music appreciation for many years. She is good at stimulating kids’ talents, potentials, and interests in learning music and piano, the contents of her lessons allow children to understand the richness of the music world and gradually improve their musical ability. For the music enlightenment education by Dalcroze, Kodaly, Orff, and Suzuki teaching methods, she combines music with dance, opera, painting, and other art forms so that make children perceive music, know basic musical knowledge, and develop students’ musical imagination and innovative ability.