Xuanyan Gong was born in Shanghai, China. Music entered Xuanyan’s life at the age of five. Before she knew it, an indissoluble bond had forged between her and music. In 2018, Xuanyan moved to the United States together with her parents and brother to study at The Juilliard School pre-college division with Professor Matti Raekallio and later on with Professor Ernest Barretta. In 2022, Xuanyan participated in masterclasses with Professor Oleg Volkov and Shai Wosner. In the same year, Xuanyan Gong became a fellow of NPR’s From the Top program, performed for a children’s hospital and made an appearance in one of From the Top’s shows. Xuanyan also became a member of the Artemisia Foundation and won the First Prize, Senior Division in the Kaufman Music Center International Piano Competition.
Xuanyan’s friends often ask her, “How are you not bored of playing the piano?” to which she replies, “Music has become a part of me and my life.” To Xuanyan, the piano is a sibling of hers, someone with whom she can converse and share all her thoughts. Music is her form of communication with her inner world, with the composers, and with the world in which the composers lived.