Karen Xie

Introducing Pianist Karen Xie

by Sanford Josephson
December 7, 2024

While attending City University of New York's Hunter College as a music major, Karen Xie stumbled upon one of the jazz studies program's big-band concerts. “There were four other people in the audience and 20 people on stage," she recalled. Xie, who is classically trained, felt the band's performance was “really cool. I thought that was something I could do because I could read music. Right after, I started sitting in on their classes, and the next semester I started ...