Violinist | Educator | International Artiste
Yu Xiaoqing, violinist, Chinese from the United States, associate professor of violin at Lee University. In China, he graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and studied violin under the famous professor Lin Yaoji. In 1986, at the invitation of the famous violin professor Raphael Bronstein, Yu Xiaoqing came to the United States and received a scholarship from the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
While studying in New York, he served as the principal second violinist of the New York New Works Orchestra and the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra. Yu’s career has taken him to many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. He also serves on the staff of the Brooklyn Philharmonic in New York and the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra in Texas. Before coming to the United States, Yu performed with various orchestras across the United States, including the National Symphony Orchestra. He served as an associate professor at the Lee University School of Music in Cleveland, Tennessee for 20 years, teaching violin and chamber music, and serving as conductor and music director of the Lee University String Orchestra. As an orchestral performer, He served as concertmaster of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra for 24 years and was also the concertmaster of the Glimmerglass Festival in New York for 23 seasons. In addition, during his time in the United States, Yu has performed with world-renowned performers such as Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Nadia Sonnenberg, Pavarotti, Emmanuelle Ax, André Watts, Joshua Bell, Michelle Midouli, Sarah Chang, Yo-Yo Ma, Maxi Vangerov, and Mischa Maski. Before becoming the concertmaster of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Yu served as the second violinist of the American Chamber Orchestra and toured nearly 100 European cities including Barcelona, Madrid, Luxembourg, Brussels, Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Florence and Sienna. For many years he has been a very active chamber musician, touring Canada, Mexico, and Central America. He has been taught by the famous American Cleveland String Quartet and Emerson String Quartet. He has performed live solo on the renowned classical radio stations WQXR in New York and WFLN in Philadelphia. These performances were broadcast live across the United States during prime time.
Since 2002, he has been teaching and touring chamber music in China and the Asia-Pacific region. Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Bangkok, Hua Hin, cities in South Korea, Seoul, Taigu, Daguian and Busan, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Shenyang, Harbin, Chengdu, Xi’an, Nanjing, Wuhan, Lanzhou, Qingdao, Rizhao, Xiamen, Hangzhou, as well as famous music colleges and many university music departments. In 2016, Mr. Yu was invited to conduct the Kunming Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra and Harbin Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, Professor Yu was invited to teach at the 4th Hong Kong International Music Festival. He was also invited to give music lectures to students from many universities and high schools, “Evaluating the Differences between the Music Education Systems in the United States versus China.” In the summer of 2018, Yu led the Lee University Trio on an Asian tour, visiting Bangkok, Hua Hin, Thailand, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Shanghai, Rizhao, Qingdao, China, and Busan, South Korea. In the summer of 2022, after the pandemic, we returned to 6 countries in Asia, including Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia, Manila, Philippines, Bangkok, Thailand, Seoul and Busan, South Korea, toured and taught for the first time in South America, including Baguette, Colombia, Quito and Cuenca, Ecuador, Santiago, Valdivia, Chile, Asuncion, Paraguay, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Mexico City, Pachuca, and Zacatecas in Mexico. In the summer of 2023 and 2024, Professor Yu will continue his annual summer educational journey “Yu-Lee Silk Road Projects”. Professor Yu will be a visiting professor at China Ocean University, Yunnan Arts University, and Kunming Symphony Orchestra in the 2025 – 2026 academic year. In 2024, Professor Yu serves as CEO of Onward Management, Inc. based in Los Angeles, USA.
As a soloist, Professor Yu has performed Mozart’s Violin Concertos No. 1, 3, 4, 5, as well as works by Bruch, Saint-Saëns, Wieniawski, Vivaldi and Piazzolla, The seasons of Buenos Aires and Vivaldi’s four seasons. His recordings with the American Chamber Orchestra and the Swiss record company Clave include Rossini’s six violin sonatas, Janacek’s Serenade for Strings, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” Quartet, and Schoenberg’s (Night of Transfiguration).
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