Chinese pianist LANXI MAO studies piano performance in the Primary Division of the Middle School at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She works under the guidance of Associate Professor, Zhou Mi, Deputy Head of Piano, Xie Jia, and Angela Chen, and has been awarded the school’s People’s Scholarship, recognizing both her musical progress and academic seriousness. 

Lanxi has already appeared on several important international stages. She has performed Belyaev’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini at Ehrbarsaal in Vienna, Schumann’s Arabeske in C Major, Op. 18 at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire Concert Hall in Georgia, and Schubert’s Impromptu in E-flat Major, D. 899 No. 2 together with Moszkowski’s Étude in A-flat Major, Op. 72, No. 11 at Carnegie Hall in New York. In August 2024, she appeared as soloist with the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra at Jinji Lake Concert Hall, performing the complete Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 414. 

She has participated in international programs such as the Poginoss International Music Festival (Vienna, Tbilisi) and the Luen International Music Program in New York, and has taken masterclasses with distinguished artists including Robert McDonald, Michelle Cann, Michel Beroff, Inesa Sinkevych, Victoria Mushkatkol, Oliver Kern, Pascal Nemirovski, and Louis Schwizgebel. 

Lanxi is gifted with perfect pitch, a solid foundation in music theory, and also plays the violin. She is especially interested in composition and orchestral arrangement, and enjoys arranging film and popular music, combining her classical training with creativity and imagination.