Xirui has about 10 years of experience teaching piano/voice and music theory lessons. She is very good at working with different levels of students, from beginners to advanced students. She is bilingual and she just earned her Doctoral Degree major in Music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She graduated from the California State University Northridge with a degree of Master of Music with the major of vocal performance. Xirui earned her bachelor's degree with the major of Music Education at the Shanghai Normal University. She has performed in various opera productions including Dialogues des Carmélites, Don Giovanni, No guarantee, Hansel and Gretel, L’incoronazione di Poppea and Cosi fan Tutte. She has also performed in the chorus in various productions as Mass in B minor, Messiah, Petite Messe solennelle, and many of these. She was also in Master Classes with Dr. Rachel Joselson, Angela Meade, and the famous conductor, Gregory Buchalter. She was a Graduate Assistant at the UNLV vocal department. Her duties are teaching private voice lessons to undergrad students, teaching non-major vocal pedagogy, and organizing vocal department affairs. She is experienced with taking care of students' voices and she studied a series of courses about "release your voice", which aims at rediscovering ones' voices and curing vocal disorders. Apart from her teaching and performance career, she also has rich experience in running summer music camps and music festivals for elementary, middle, and high school students. She also works as a coordinator, chorus director, voice faculty, and as a music theory teacher.