Described by The Boston Musical Intelligencer as “incisive and with innate musicality,” pianist Alice Chenyang Xu has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Germany, USA, Canada, and throughout China. Notable concerts include solo performances and recitals at Chicago Symphony Hall, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center, Corbett Auditorium in Cincinnati, Hochschule Musik Hall in Leipzig, Germany, and Jordan Hall in Boston; concerto performances in Chicago Auditorium Theatre, JIAOZI Concert Hall, and Chengdu Concert Hall in China; and chamber music performances at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Dorflinger Glass Museum, and the New York Public Library.

Ms. Xu has appeared in various music festivals around the world including the Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, YellowBarn, Internationale Mendelssohn-Akademie, Art of Piano, and Morningside Music Bridge, and has collaborated with the Borromeo String Quartet and members of the Cleveland Quartet, violinist Anthony Marwood, cellists John Myerscough and Bonnie Hampton, soprano Lucy Shelton, baritone William Sharp, pianist Christina Dahl, and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. Ms. Xu has worked directly with composers George Crumb, Jörg Widmann, Shulamit Ran, and Helen Grime, and performed for former Secretary of State Colin Powell under the auspices of the Eisenhower Fellowships.

Xuberg, Ms. Xu’s piano duo with her husband Miles Fellenberg, actively performs in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. They edited and re-arranged the four-hands version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 by Hugo Ulrich and premiered it in 2021.

An active educator, Ms. Xu has taught at various music schools in China, Chicago, and Boston. She also conducts an annual private piano workshop at Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China and was invited to give a lecture recital on music education and collaborative piano at the Consulate General of the United States, Chengdu in 2019.

Ms. Xu was a recipient of the Dorothy Hinton-Congleton Memorial Presidential Scholarship, second prize-winner of the 10th Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, third-prize winner of the 2nd SEILER International Piano Competition in Germany, winner of the 2012 Chicago College of Performing Arts Solo Competition and Concerto Competition, winner of the 2018 Borromeo Artist Award, and was selected for the 2020 Honors Ensemble Program at New England Conservatory.

Ms. Xu graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and Roosevelt University and is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at New England Conservatory of Music. She serves as a piano faculty member of Tufts University and is coordinator of the Piano for Non-Majors Class at New England Conservatory.