Pianist Qi Xu is currently a faculty member of piano at the Harbin University of Music, a Distinguished Expert in the Field of Culture in Shenzhen, and an adjunct music theory faculty member at The Tianjin Juilliard School. He also serves as a Board Member of the Heilongjiang Musicians Association, Director of its Piano Committee's Performance and Activity Office, and is a designated Pearl River Kayserburg Artist.

Dr. Xu holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) and a Master of Music (MM) from The Juilliard School, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Columbia University (CC’16) through the highly selective Columbia-Juilliard Exchange Program. In 2015, he was selected as a Columbia-Oxbridge Scholar, spending a year reading mathematics at Robinson College, University of Cambridge.

His musical journey began at age five in Shenzhen. He went on to study with Ms. Yin Song at age seven, and with the renowned Professor Dan Zhaoyi at age ten, before entering the Shenzhen Arts School in 2007. In 2009, he achieved the rare distinction of being admitted simultaneously to both The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute of Music, choosing to attend Juilliard under the tutelage of Professor Yoheved Kaplinsky, the Chair of the Piano Department. In 2012, he was admitted to Columbia University as a prestigious John Jay Scholar with a full scholarship. There, he major-studied Mathematics while continuing his rigorous piano training at Juilliard. In 2017, upon completing his five-year joint bachelor's and master's degrees, he continued his doctoral studies (DMA) at Juilliard, studying under Professors Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio.