Dr. Yuxin Mei is a renowned pipa virtuoso, educator, and the founding director of the University of North Texas Chinese Ensemble. She earned a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of North Texas (UNT) and was the recipient of the Presser Graduate Music Award in 2018. Her paper, “Negotiating with Sound: The Living Sound Niche Created by the Chinese Immigrants in the Dallas Area,” received the 2016 Vida Chenoweth Student Paper Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology Southern Plains Chapter. She won the Texas Folklife Apprenticeship Mentor Award in 2020, among other grants.

Dr. Mei received BA and MA degrees in Pipa Performance and Education from the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou. From 2006 to 2012, she was on the faculty at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Prior to this, she was the Artistic Director and soloist for the Zhuhai Chinese Music Chamber Orchestra. She has performed in numerous countries, including China, Portugal, Norway, Singapore, France, and Germany. Dr. Mei has also taught masterclasses at the Macau Art School and the Chong Hong Chinese Music Association in Macau.

From 2012 to 2016, she was invited to Norway as part of the cultural exchange project "Spoor" hosted by The Cultural Rucksack in Akershus. In 1998, Mei released the album "Spring of Zhu Hai."