Chan Mei Xuan (Maxy) became the first Malaysian to win the prestigious 2013 and 2014 Asia Piano Competition in Taiwan and South Korea respectively. She had also obtained her ATCL (2010), LTCL (2012), and FTCL (2014) diplomas in piano performance from Trinity College, London. As a current final year student at UCSI University’s Institute of Music, she has been actively performing in various concerts, shows, and recitals. She has appeared at 10th Penang Island Jazz Festival, 11th Johor Bahru Arts Festival, 22nd Kota Kinabalu Music Festival, 41st Klang Music Festival, 3rd Euroasia Youth Music Festival, and many others. She was invited as one of the speakers for the Theme: Synchronization titled “Get Your Life in Sync” at TEDxUCSIUniversity in 2017. She had organized and performed a piano solo fundraising recital for UNICEF Malaysia titled TOMORROW at Bentley Music Academy in 2017, and presented a lecture recital at UCSI Piano Pedagogy Conference 2017 on Performance Perspectives on Ng Chong Lim’s A Distant Voice of the Rain Forest: Musical Elements, Preparation Guidelines, and Interpretations at UCSI University.
