Xinyu Pan, Lyric Coloratura Soprano, was born in Jiangsu, China. She is a 2nd year Doctoral of Musical Arts student in Vocal Performance and a part-time voice instructor at UNLV, under the guidance of Dr. Alfonse Anderson. She is also a member of the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) and serves as a Vice President of UNLV Chapter. She achieved her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Vocal Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma. She started learning piano at the age of 7 but when she was 16 she realized that she was more interested in singing. Despite deciding to be an opera singer, she still took private piano lessons with Dr. David Forbat at UCO. She also studied one semester of Collaborative Piano with Dr. Sallie Pollack, and then played for singers and bassoonist in lessons and their juries. Possessing a deep love of music as well as a desire to explore the unknown, Xinyu also studied cello for 5 years with Grammy-winning cellist Dr. Tess Remy-Schumacher.

Xinyu has worked with UNLV Opera, Opera Las Vegas, Painted Sky Opera, Vox Opera, and UCO Opera. Her opera experience includes Le Comte Ory (Countess Adèle), Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde), Die Zauberflöte (Pamina), The Consul (The Foreign Woman), Coffee Cantata (Lieschen), Madama Butterfly (The Aunt), Cendrillon (Maguelonne); Scenes include Candide (Cunegonde), Die Zauberflöte (Papagena), Prima Donna (Fiammetta); Chorus in Behold the Man (Martha) and Pirates of Penzance. Xinyu won 1st place in the NATS Competition in Oklahoma District; Gold award in classical category and Silver award in No-age-limit category of World Classical Music Award Competition; and won both the Gold Award and the Expressive Performance Special Award in the London Young Artist Competition. Xinyu also has recorded a song in CD “ASA” with Dr. Tess Remy-Schumacher in 2021 and performed in the CD Release Concert. She also was honored to be selected as an Ambassador of UCO School of Music in 2019-2020. 

Xinyu is very passionate about teaching and always is energetic while trying to make her students feel relaxed and supported in their lessons. She believes that the most important thing is to make students truly enjoy making music. She loves the critical ideas that come out of collaborating with her students and enjoys sharing her music ideas with them as friends. Xinyu approaches music instruction not only from the perspective of a teacher, but as an eternal student, appreciating what she has learned from her students.