Mao Xiangyu, professor of piano department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, tutor of master students, and member of the professional guidance group of doctoral degree in piano art theory, was born in Beijing, grew up in Hong Kong and received higher education in the United States. In 1991, he entered Oberlin Conservatory of Music (and studied economics at Oberlin College of Arts and Sciences). Graduated in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in music. He immediately enrolled in The Juilliard School in new york, where he successively obtained a master's degree in music and a doctor's degree in music arts.