Chen Xi

Praised as “a very bright musician with strong individuality’ (The Strad, October 2002), Chen Xi won the top prize at the 12th International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in June 2002 when he was 17, becoming the youngest winner in the competition's history. As a gifted violinist and child prodigy, Chen Xi has achieved numerous accolades in international competitions from a young age, including the Eighth Lipinski-Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poland in 2000 and the Ninth National Youth Violin Competition of China in 2001.

Chen Xi has performed with various orchestras, including the China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, South Bend Symphony Orchestra, Sejong Soloists, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Kammerorchester and Iceland Chamber Orchestra, performing at prestigious venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris.

In 2003, he toured Taiwan with pianist Lang Lang and the Chinese Youth Symphony Orchestra. In May 2007, he was selected as the representative of the People's Republic of China to perform at a welcome concert for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. In 2016, Chen Xi toured Europe with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra and participated in several festivals, including the Merano Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival, and Ljubljana Festival.