Chinese born pianist Xun Pan received his early musical training from his grandmother and his parents. He continued his studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, Syracuse University in New York, and earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University.

Mr. Pan has won many international piano competitions and awards, beginning with first prize in the 1986 China National Piano Competition in Beijing, the "Dr. Luis Sigall" International Piano Competition in Chile in 1987, the International Festival Piano Competition in Korea in 1990, and the Artists International Competition in New York in 1993. He has performed in Moscow, Santiago, Singapore, Taipei, Shanghai, Pyongyang, London, Los Angeles, Budapest, New York, Vina Del Mar, Lisbon, Toronto, Boston, and many other cities in the world. He "…excites his audience with extraordinary power and masterful technique." (Intelligencer Journal) He also won the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York in 1992, and he became one of the judges in 2006 in this same competition he won fourteen years earlier.

A student of Theodore Lettvin, Mr. Pan has performed solo recitals worldwide from Carnegie Hall to China's Beijing Concert Hall. A noted chamber musician, he is the pianist of the Newstead Trio, one of the most distinguished piano trios in North America, with which he has performed throughout Canada, Europe, China, Singapore, and the United States. They have been broadcast live on radio and television.

Mr. Pan is Chairman of the Piano Department at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, and is also a visiting professor of the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China.