Suzhou, China
Gloria (Xinyue) Xia is a London-based composer, originally from China. Her creative practice is rooted in humanity, relationships, and feminism. She creates music that embraces vulnerability and honesty, allowing space for discomfort and bizarreness. Influenced by the New Discipline and cross-disciplinary, intercultural installations, her work merges music with text, movement, and visuals, often through embodied, performative gestures and language. Her compositions have been showcased internationally, with performances in the US, the UK, Europe, and China. She has collaborated with ensembles including Ensemble Modern, United Instruments of Lucilin, House of Bedlam, EDME, and Hypercube. She was the winner of the RNCM Artist of the Year 2026, and has been selected as one of three composers for the Marian Consort’s Emerging Voices 2026 programme. Her work has been featured in festivals including the Rainy Day Festival 2025 and the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble’s 4th Annual New Music Festival (October 2025). Xia is also passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration. She has worked with choreographers from the Northern Ballet School and animation artists from Manchester Metropolitan University. She completed her undergraduate studies in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Composition at the Royal Academy of Music as a scholarship recipient.