Xingye Li is a Chinese classical guitarist born in 1989 in Shenyang, China. He began playing at age nine under Prof. Guangxu Jiang, and in 2004 was admitted to the Korea National University of Arts on full scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Korea, studying with Prof. Song-ou Lee until his 2009 graduation. He then studied with Prof. Reinbert Evers at the Münster Academy of Music in Germany, and since 2015 has pursued his Konzertexamen at the Berlin University of the Arts under Prof. Rainer Feldmann.

Li has won first prizes at the International Guitar Competition in Tychy, Poland; the “Printemps de la Guitare” competition in Charleroi, Belgium; the GWK Young Artists’ Award in Germany; and multiple guitar competitions in Korea. He has released several albums since 2011 and has performed hundreds of recitals and concerto concerts across Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Russia, China, and South Korea.

Sources:

• https://hannabach.com/en/artists/xingye-li
• https://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/xingye-li-plays-etude-no-1-by-villa-lobos/