He has appeared with numerous ensembles including Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de Lyon, Hallé Orchestra and Bamberg Symphony. Ensembles with which he has served as conductor include the Orchestre de l'Auvergne, Helsinki Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and the Tapiola Sinfonietta. He has collaborated with musicians including Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Paul Tortelier, Krystian Zimerman, János Starker, Maria-João Pires, Gidon Kremer, Edith Wiens, and Renée Fleming. He has appeared as a conductor and a soloist in all leading international centers in Europe, the United States, Canada, India, the Far East and Africa, winning critical acclaim everywhere. Between 19, he won major prizes including first prizes at the Carl Flesch (London), Paganini (Genoa), and Geneva international competitions, among others. He began his violin lessons at the Nice Conservatoire, entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen and winning the first violin prize there the following year. Of Russian origin, Jean-Jacques Kantorow was born in Cannes in 1945. Maestro Mehta described Xue as “a brilliant violinist and outstanding leader that performs with virtuosic musicality.” Suli Xue collaborated with maestro Zubin Mehta as a soloist and concertmaster to perform in the gala symphony concert at the Harbin China-Russia Cultural and Arts Festival.
In 2017, the competition joined the United Nations ESCO “World Federation of International Music Competitions,” fortifying and promoting music cultural exchange internationally. In 2014, Xue introduced the Schoenfeld International String Competition to Harbin. Recently, he has participated in many important performances as a soloist with the China National Symphony Orchestra, Harbin Summer Music Festival, and others. He performed as a soloist with the YMF Debut Orchestra and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra for their New Year’s Concert Tour in China, and Pacific Symphony Orchestra for their Chinese New Year’s concert. He has also served as a juror for numerous international music competitions. Xue has been frequently invited as a guest artist and faculty to teach and perform at International Music Festivals in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He was a protégé of world-renowned violin professor Alice Schoenfeld. Xue graduated from USC Thornton School of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Xue has earned high acclaim around the world for his unique artistry. He is also the winner of two Gold Medals of Global Music Awards. He is a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, president of the Schoenfeld International Music Society, a rtistic director of the Schoenfeld International String Competition, artistic director of the Hong Kong International Music Festival, artist in residence at the Azusa Pacific University, artistic advisor of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra, former professor of violin at the USC Thornton School of Music, and former concertmaster of the China National Symphony Orchestra. One of the most outstanding Chinese-American violinists, Suli Xue enjoys an active career on today’s international music stage. On their recommendation, more than a hundred Chinese string students studying abroad received scholarship support. In the 1980s both Alice and Eleonore were among the first internationally recognised musicians to visit communist China, after formal diplomatic relations had been established between the Chinese and American governments. The sisters received the USC’s Ramo Music Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the American String Teachers Association named them joint winners of the Artist Teacher Award in 1996. Among Alice Schoenfeld’s students were Anne Akiko Meyers and Suli Xue. Both Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky numbered among their colleagues at the school. At first, they taught part-time while still maintaining their touring schedule, but eventually became full-time faculty members. In 1952 she and her family immigrated to the US, where in 1959 both she and Eleonore were invited to join the string faculty at USC. She was also the founder of the Harbin Schoenfeld International String Competition and Schoenfeld International Music Society.īorn in 1921 in Yugoslavia, Alice Schoenfeld studied the violin in Berlin under Karl Klingler, a student of Joseph Joachim, and made her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic aged ten. An internationally acclaimed violinist, who for many years had a respected duo partnership with her sister, cellist Eleonore Schoenfeld, she taught at USC Thornton School of Music, California, for almost 60 years.
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