Lingyu Dong, violin
Roger Xia, piano

Program

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, op. 96

Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, op. 100

Free
a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

About the Artists

Lingyu Dong is a highly accomplished young violinist with extensive performance experience and a series of prestigious awards. He began his violin studies in 2005 and gave his first concerto performance in 2007 with the Shandong Symphony Orchestra at the age of 7. His early musical education under the guidance of Professor Lam Yiu-kee paved the way for numerous international performances and competitions, including first prize at the Hong Kong International Violin Competition in 2011 and the East Asia International Violin Competition in Tokyo in 2015. He received a full scholarship to attend the Central Conservatory of Music (pre-college program), Beijing, in 2013 and in 2018 was admitted to the Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles, where he studied under the mentorship of Margaret Batjer. The following year, he continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, studying with renowned violinists Midori Goto and Arnold Steinhardt. Lingyu has participated in numerous masterclasses with world-renowned violinists and pedagogues such as Zakhar Bron, Maxim Vengerov, Augustin Hadelich, and Xiaoming Wang and has collaborated with prestigious orchestras such as the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra, Austrian Philharmonic Orchestra, and Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Currently, Lingyu is pursuing his Master of Music degree at the New England Conservatory, studying with Donald Weilerstein.

Roger Xia began his musical training at a young age, starting piano at five and violin at seven. He has studied piano with Linda Beaulieu, Natsuki Fukasawa, Richard Cionco, Thomas Schultz and Elizabeth Schumann. His violin teachers include Dong Ho, William Barbini and Owen Dalby. He also studied chamber music with Susan Lamb Cook and Christopher Costanza. Roger was a winner of the Mondavi Young Artists Competition (2015) and National Young Arts Foundation (2018, 2020) and has performed with the National Youth Orchestra (2019–2020). He was Concertmaster of both the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (2017–2020) and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra (2020–2024) and performed as a piano soloist with both orchestras. Last year, Roger played Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G as a soloist with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra. Outside of music, he enjoys snowboarding, playing and watching soccer, and exploring a variety of cuisines. Roger recently graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s of science degree in Biology and Music and a coterminal master’s of science degree in biomedical data science. He is currently a first-year medical student at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.