Xinran Shi lives in San Jose, California. She began playing piano at four and a half and currently studies with Hans Boepple. Xinran was a 2020-2022 Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation.
Xinran has won top prizes in many national and international competitions, such as the Kaufman Music Center International Youth Piano Competition, the Ettlingen International Piano Competition, the MTAC State Solo/Concerto Competition, the International e-Piano Junior Competition, Aloha International Piano Competition, Chicago International Music Competition, San Jose International Piano Competition, Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, CT, the Steinway Piano Competition Regionals and Nationals, Philadelphia International Piano Competition, China Grand Canal Piano Art Festival, and Seattle International Piano Competition, among others.
Xinran has attended various music programs such as Morningside Music Bridge, the PYPA Piano Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and School 2020 Virtual Program, the John Perry Academy Summer Festival, and the Grand Piano Series. She appreciates having had the opportunity to learn from great teachers, musicians, and pianists including Lang Lang, Gary Graffman, Arie Vardi, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Jerome Lowenthal, Hung-Kuan Chen, Ching-Yun Hu, Kathryn Brown, John Perry, Ruth Slenczynska, and Jay Sun, among others. Besides playing piano, Xinran enjoys dancing, reading, swimming, and traveling.