Yuan Xia is a Chinese percussionist and marimba player, born in 2001. He began studying percussion in Shanghai at the age of nine.
He trained with Yang Ruwen and entered the secondary school affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2016, studying with Gao Hua. He later studied percussion at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts with Marta Klimasara and Klaus Dreher.
His competition successes include first prize at the Jeju International Brass and Percussion Competition in 2022. At the 2024 TROMP International Percussion Competition in Eindhoven, he won first prize, the Audience Award and the Willem Vos Award. In 2026, he received second prize and the Audience Award in percussion at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
As a soloist, he has appeared with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.