Xiachu Song

Xiachu Song is from Handan City, Hebei Province, China. Born in 1999, she started to play the violin at the age of 4. She began her formal training at age 11 at Tianjin Conservatory of Music Middle School, studying with Wenning Guan – the Professor at Tianjin Conservatory of Music.

Xiachu Song has attended a number of musical festivals, including Festival del Lago, ENCORE Chamber Music Institute, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. In the summer of 2017, she has selected from a pool of over a thousand applicants of NYO-China featuring Music Director of the Seattle Symphony Ludovic Morlot with pianist Yuja Wang and Olga Kern. The New York Times said of the concert: “If [the Carnegie Hall performance] was a test run for this new venture, these Chinese musicians scored big.”

As a classical musician, she performed solo recitals at Oberlin’s Conservatory’s Kulas Recital Hall, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, with works by Brahms, Beethoven, Sarasate, and Bach. She also engaged in performing orchestral music. She was involved in more than 30 concerts during her undergraduate study with Oberlin Orchestra, Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, and Oberlin Baroque Orchestra. She was also invited to perform with Richmond Symphony Orchestra at Civic Hall, Richmond, Indiana, in the fall of 2021. In the field of chamber music, Xiachu Song was invited to play Felix Mendelssohn’s String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, with two faculties of Festival del Lago – Luke Fleming and Noémie Raymond Friset in the summer of 2021.

In addition to her study career, she also teaches young students. As one of the faculty members of Guan Wenning String Art Studio, Xiachu taught private lessons for beginning students aged 6-11 years. After she came to Jacobs School of Music, Xiachu Song gave private lessons for primary school. She currently serves as Teaching Assistant at the University of North Texas College of Music.

Xiachu is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Texas College of Music. She serves as associate concertmaster of the UNT Chamber Orchestra under Julia Bushkova and Chloe Kiffer’s studio. She holds a master’s degree from Jacobs School of Music and studied with Grigory Kalinovsky. She obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Sibbi Bernhardsson and Gregory Fulkerson.

Among several awards, honors, and competitions that Xiachu has achieved, including the UNT Academic Achievement Scholarship in 2022; Jacobs School of Music Graduate Tuition Award in 2020-2022; Oberlin Conservatory Dean’s Talent Award from 2016-2020; and the First Award of HongKong International String Competition Tianjin Division of China in 2014 demonstrate her professionalism as a violinist.