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

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.