As the winner of the 2018 Aspen Piano Concerto Competition, Biguo Emma Xing appeared as soloist with the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Summers. She has won numerous prizes, including at the 1st Beijing International Fryderyk Chopin Competition For Young Pianists, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and the Xinghai Cup Piano Competition. Biguo is also the winner of the BNP Paribas “Rising Stars” Piano Festival Award, participated in the XVIII Chopin International Piano Competition and 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.

Biguo Emma Xing has appeared as soloist at Benedict Tent and Harris Concert Hall at the Aspen Music Festival, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Beijing Concert Hall, Embassy of Poland in Washington D.C., Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall, ACT CITY Hamamatsu Concert Hall (Japan), Meany Hall of Performing Arts (University of Washington) and Tsinghua University Concert Hall (Beijing). She has also appeared at the Piano aux Jacobins Festival in China, the Juilliard Focus! Festival in New York, and on China Central Television (CCTV).

Biguo has received many fellowships and scholarships, including the New Horizons Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and School, a Yamaha Music Scholarship, and the Rose Piano Fellowship at The Juilliard School.

She received her Bachelor of Music with Academic Honors and Master of Music degrees at The Juilliard School, where her individual instructor was Hung-Kuan Chen and her chamber music coaches included Emanuel Ax and Jerome Lowenthal. As a graduate student, she served as a Teaching Fellow in Juilliard’s Secondary Piano and Keyboard Skills and Music Theory and Analysis departments.

A Columbia-Juilliard Exchange student, she also studied philosophy at Columbia University, was a member of the Columbia Debate Society, and served on the judging panel for the Ivy League Parliamentary Championship, hosted by Columbia University and Yale IV.

She currently pursues her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying with David Kaplan.