Gallery — XinOu Wei, Violinist

with Renee Fleming at Carnegie Hall

with Her Majesty Queen Sylvia of Sweden, after playing a recital in her honor, West Palm Beach, Florida

with Pinchas Zukerman

His tone, and expression, so overwhelmingly beautiful, that one has some kind of coma listening to it so close by. I have always dreamed to sound like him, which fiddle player hasn't!? When I think of a most beautiful, "tasty" violin sound, this is it.

visiting his idol Pinchas Zukerman backstage in New York, 2017.

with the one, the only, Renee Fleming at Carnegie Hall, New York

"I'm so glad I did that"-her reaction when I thanked dearly for singing "Song to the Moon", and told her that from time to time, I would wander on the Streets of New York, and listening to her recording of that aria some 20 times in row.

visiting his idol Pinchas Zukerman backstage in New York, 2017.

with Emmanuel Pahud after a performance at Aspen Music Festival and School

with Victor Rosenbaum after a recital in Cambridge

There are musicians, and there are those who make music. If you see music as a language, no one spoke more freely, and more beautifully than this man.

with Victor Rosenbaum in New York

in recording with Eduard Laurel

with Matthias Pintscher after the Swiss premiere of Friedrich Cerha's "Spiegel" at KKL, Lucerne Festival

after a performance at Meadowmount School of Music

with Ida Haendal

with the legendary Ida Haendal, whose countless recordings I grew up with. I played Chausson's Poème for her in Miami, perhaps my absolute best performance ever, to this day. Four young violinists played for her that day. After her making the first student cry, I went on, had no expectation of any, good or bad, and was ready to be judged and sent to Hell. She said after I finished playing "You are a very fine violinist, you showed something profound! Would you like any comments from me?". That whole day was somewhat in a holy aura that surrounded me, long after meeting her.

with James Ehnes

after a beautiful Beethoven with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall

with Itzhak Perlman at Lincoln Center after my performance in the 75th Gala of American-Israel Cultural Foundation, which he hosted.

I walked in after the performance, greeted by his signature humor:"Sounded good! Where is your bow?"as he laughs.

with James Ehnes, after our performance of "Souvenir de Florence" at Meadowmount School of Music's Gala Concert.

James Ehnes, the aristocrat of violinists.

with Hugh Wolff, after our concert in the Benedict Music Tent, at Aspen Music Festival and School.

with Tong Weidong, the eminent Chinese violinist and pedagogue, for whom I was the translator for all his masterclasses during his Meadowmount visit.

Robert Spano with the mentors of the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra

with Ellen DePasquale, after our concert at the Aspen Music Festival and School

Watching her play is a masterclass on bowing and how to lead a section. A beautiful violin violinist in more way than one.

Inscribed poster from my dear teacher Elmar Oliveira

with Maxim Vengerov at Carnegie Hall backstage, New York.

with Shlomo Mintz, Carnegie Hall 2019, photo credit: Astrid Spector

a masterclass at the Aspen Music Festival and School

teaching at Meadowmount School of Music

with Nikolaj Znaider

a back stage visit after his performance of the Sibelius Concerto. as much of a shock and fountain of inspiration as I have heard him playing the same piece in the very same hall on 2012, with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Colin Davis.

with Joyce DiDonato 2018

back stage of New York Metropolitan Opera after her perfromance of Cendrillon. unbelievable in every way, I showed her my transcription of Reynaldo Hahn’s Venezia, a set of eternal songs I forever associate with her, ever since first hearing her sing them in a beautiful summer night in Aspen. She autographed on the top of the score.

with Nicola Benedetti

after a concert in America 2018

with Matthias Pintscher

after a KKL performance in Lucerne, 2017

with my dear professor Boris Kuschnir in Vienna (2018)

with Sir Simon Rattle at Lucerne Festival

Lisa Batiashvili

with Lisa Batiashvili

Andris Nelsons

with my dear professor Hubert Kroisamer

with my dear professor Hubert Kroisamer in Lucerne KKL, before one of the last concerts he performed before officially retired from being the leader of the first Violin section of the Wiener Philharmiker.

Michale Haefliger, founder of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Vilde Frang

Frank Peter Zimmerman

Valery Gergiev

Lorenz Nasturica-Hershcowici "Celibedache's concertmaster"

with the great Wolfgang Rhim

with Gidon Kremer

Finally got to ask him a question I have had for long :"How do you decide the tempo of the last movement of the Schumann concerto?", "I play what is written on the score", he smiles, answering with much assert. I can't help but to cry out :"But the tempo are entirely different in your two recording!" "Well, I thought he made a mistake (Schumann) at first, and then, I realized he knew what was he doing." Needless to say, I went back home with much satisfaction, yet more drive, and thirst to study this immoral concerto, which constantly intrigues me with all its aspects. What a life well spent, trying to guess the puzzle of meaning, give us by Mr.Schumann!!

with my dear summer teacher Sylvia Rosenberg

with my dear teacher Sally Thomas

My first Scheherazade!!

with Sara Pearson after the concert

with Friedrich Cerha, after the Swiss premiere of the composer's "Spiegel" at KKL, Lucerne Festival.

at Carnegie Hall, with the Manhattan Symphonie

performing in Central Park for the Counsel General of Italy in New York Minister Francesco Genuardi

with the the Counsel General of Italy in New York Minister Francesco Genuardi

performing in Central Park for the Counsel General of Italy in New York Minister Francesco Genuardi

with all the finalists of the Heida Hermann International Competition.

portrait by Markus Laine

with friend Emily Kate Naydeck

with clarinetist Angela Shankar

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