{"id":27425,"date":"2025-05-23T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/?post_type=ecms-faculty&p=27425"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:45:18","slug":"guo-xu","status":"publish","type":"ecms-faculty","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/ecms-faculty\/guo-xu\/","title":{"rendered":"Guo, Xu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hailed by Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as \u201cThe future giant among the piano soloists\u201d, Chinese pianist Xu Guo<\/strong> has appeared in concerts in major cities of China, USA, Netherland, Thailand, Croatia, Poland, Latvia, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, etc., including performances at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Weil Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, Prince Mahidol Hall in Bangkok, Concert hall of the Katowice Miasto Ogrod\u00f3w, Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, etc. Current season will take her to the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Xinghai Concert Hall, Bay Opera in Shenzhen, National Center for Performing Art in Beijing, and concerto tour \u201cEchos of Bach\u201d with China National Center for Performing Art Orchestra, in collaboration with pianist Sa Chen and conductor Yifan Sun; Concerto performance of Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3 with Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra in Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a soloist, her performance had appeared in Holland National Radio \u2014 NPO 4 Classical Chanel, and her album \u201cXu Guo and Yutong Sun \u2013 Hear HER Voice\u201d released by QQ Music was awarded as \u201cthe best of Classical \u2013 Romantic Period Album\u201d of 2022. Her performance of Mozart Piano Concerto in d minor was claimed by the Bangkok Post as \u201c\u2026sublime reading\u2026with a freshness and scrupulous attention to detail\u2026followed in the tradition of Mitsuko Uchida in sensibility and taste\u2026Xu\u2019s relish of Mozart\u2019s ingenious writing shined through as her fingers rippled upward\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xu is a prize winner of many international piano competitions, among her recent awards are: the 1st Prize at The V Thailand International Piano Competition, with two special prizes \u201cBest Romance Prize\u201d and \u201cAudience Prize\u201d (2018); 1st Prize at the 6th Karlovac International Piano Competition, along with the Audience Award (2019); 1st Prize at the New York International Artist Piano Competition (2021); the Absolute Award at the 3rd WPTA Finland International Piano Competition (2021); and 3rd Prize at the 2nd \u201cSviatoslav Richter\u201d International Piano Competition (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Xu is a DMA (Doctor of Musical Art) candidate at Eastman School of Music under the guidance of Alexander Kobrin. She earned her Bachelor and Master Degrees at New England Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Meng-Chieh Liu, HaeSun Paik, and Dang Thai Son. Previously, Xu was admitted to The Music School Attached to the Central Conservatory of Music and studied under Hua Chang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to her performance career, she is also actively engaged in teaching. She has been appointed as a Teaching Assistant in the piano department at the New England Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music. Moreover, her private students have won many awards, including 1st<\/sup> Prize at the 8th Ischia International Piano Competition; 1st<\/sup> Place Award at the US International Open Music Competition; 1st<\/sup> Prize at the 5th Vienna-Mozart International Piano Competition (China National Round); 1st<\/sup> Prize at the Golden Era of Romantic Music International Music Competition; 1st<\/sup> Prize at the MMTA\u2019s Bay State Contest; 1st<\/sup> Prize at the Miclot International Music Competition; 1st<\/sup> Prize at the \u201cHummingbird Music Award\u201d China Youth Music Competition; 2nd<\/sup> Prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition (Hartford, Connecticut); 1st<\/sup> Prize at the Seattle International Piano Competition; and 1st<\/sup> Prize at the Ocean Music International Piano Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":27426,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faculty-category":[],"faculty-instrument":[155],"faculty-department":[145],"faculty-ensemble":[],"faculty-type":[2011],"faculty-tag":[],"class_list":["post-27425","ecms-faculty","type-ecms-faculty","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-instrument-piano","faculty-department-piano-keyboard-organ","faculty-type-student-teacher"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/files\/Xu-Guo-Photo-2-scaled-1.jpg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/author\/kristijan-bogdanovski\/","display_name":"Kristijan Bogdanovski"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 months ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 23, 2025","modified":"Updated on October 10, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 23, 2025 10:00 AM","modified":"Updated on October 10, 2025 11:45 AM"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"faculty-category":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-category","name":"ECMS Faculty Categories"},"faculty-instrument":{"linked":["Piano<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Piano<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-instrument","name":"ECMS Faculty Instruments"},"faculty-department":{"linked":["Piano, Keyboard & Organ<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Piano, Keyboard & Organ<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-department","name":"ECMS Faculty Departments"},"faculty-ensemble":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-ensemble","name":"ECMS Faculty Ensembles"},"faculty-type":{"linked":["Student Teacher<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Student Teacher<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-type","name":"ECMS Faculty Types"},"faculty-tag":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-tag","name":"ECMS Faculty Tags"}},"series_order":"","mfb_rest_fields":["title","author","featured_img","coauthors","author_meta","relative_dates","absolute_dates","absolute_dates_time","featured_img_caption","tax_additional","series_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/27425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ecms-faculty"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/27425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33681,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/27425\/revisions\/33681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculty-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-category?post=27425"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-instrument?post=27425"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-department?post=27425"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-ensemble","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-ensemble?post=27425"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-type?post=27425"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-tag?post=27425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}