Yunfei Xie is currently a second-year Master of Music student at the Eastman School of Music, where he studies under Professor Chien-Kwan Lin. He is a classical saxophone soloist, chamber musician, and experienced band player. He holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in performance from the University of Toronto, with Professor Wallace Halladay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During his more than 10 years of saxophone journey, he had acclaimed multiple first prizes in the Beijing Art Festival of College Students both as the leader of the University of Science and Technology Beijing Symphonic Band and the Invisible Leap Quartet. He was also the winner of the 2023 University of Toronto Wind Competition, and the 2024 University of Toronto Symphonic Orchestra competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yunfei studied with world-famous virtuosos like Claude Delangle, Timothy McAllister, Vincent David, and others. As a musical student, he is building a comprehensive approach towards music, nourishing his verdant passion with a polychromatic insight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":36090,"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":[157],"faculty-department":[149],"faculty-ensemble":[4195],"faculty-type":[2011],"faculty-tag":[],"class_list":["post-35983","ecms-faculty","type-ecms-faculty","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-instrument-saxophone","faculty-department-woodwinds-brass-percussion-faculty","faculty-ensemble-new-horizons-saxophone-ensemble","faculty-type-student-teacher"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/files\/Yunfei-Xie.jpg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/author\/isabella-lau\/","display_name":"Isabella Lau"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 months ago","modified":"Updated 1 month ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 20, 2026","modified":"Updated on September 15, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 20, 2026 12:16 PM","modified":"Updated on September 15, 2026 12:02 PM"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"faculty-category":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-category","name":"ECMS Faculty Categories"},"faculty-instrument":{"linked":["Saxophone<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Saxophone<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-instrument","name":"ECMS Faculty Instruments"},"faculty-department":{"linked":["Woodwinds, Brass & Percussion<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Woodwinds, Brass & Percussion<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-department","name":"ECMS Faculty Departments"},"faculty-ensemble":{"linked":["New Horizons Saxophone Ensemble<\/a>"],"unlinked":["New Horizons Saxophone Ensemble<\/span>"],"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_acf":[],"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\/35983","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\/35983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36091,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/35983\/revisions\/36091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculty-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-category?post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-instrument?post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-department?post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-ensemble","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-ensemble?post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-type?post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-tag?post=35983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}