Benefit Concert for Ukraine Orphans & Refugees

Ner de Leon is a contemporary saxophonist, recording artist, record producer, and master musician who has set the bar high across more than 30 years as a performer.

Ner hails from a long line of musicians and has been playing the saxophone since he was eight years old. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he developed a new passion, respect, and love for his craft, becoming a brilliant instrumentalist and setting the stage for a prolific career performing in venues large and small as a solo artist.

Ner has developed a timbre that distinguishes his unique style and sound, and has released eight albums as an independent recording artist to date. As a performer he has travelled to many countries and immersed himself in different avenues of music — session player, jazz artist in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and recording and performing with various artists.

As an event show master, Ner de Leon shines in front of any crowd — concerts, private and corporate events, church events, lounge music, and jazz festivals. His style spans a wide range of genres, from classical to jazz, pop, gospel, R&B, Motown, ballads, dance, and cover tunes. With such an extensive repertoire, Ner is the perfect accompaniment to any celebration.

True to his faith and passion, Ner is committed to creating music that emanates the message of love, hope, and peace of Jesus Christ.

Dongni Xie is a first-prize winner of many international piano competitions. She appears as one of the guest artists of the Cliburn Foundation as well as the legendary pianists of the Achúcarro Foundation.

Xie is in demand throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, having performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, Château de Fontainebleau (France), Dream Forest Arts Center (South Korea), Gijon City Hall (Spain), and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (US). She has been praised for her “bold and riveting” (Peninsula) and “bravura performance … mature and relaxed, perfectly in line with its composer’s presumed intention” (Herald Tribune). She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in California, Colorado, and Texas, including the season-opening concert of the Boulder Symphony Orchestra and the season finale of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra, and as a featured artist at international festivals including Imago Sloveniae (Slovenia), Festival ARTIS (Slovakia), and the August Music Festival (UK).

Xie performs frequently in Dallas and the Fort Worth metroplex. An avid performer at music education programmes designed to create social change, she finds fulfilment in giving back to local communities and promoting classical music to the younger generation.

Xie is a leader in the interplay between classical and modern music, having founded In6ix, a sextet combining jazz and classical styles. She led her group as pianist on tour throughout China in 2019, giving concerts and master classes, and co-founded the concert series Live! Again, based out of Dallas and Houston.

As an academic, Xie has been invited to lecture at universities and colleges in the United States and Asia, and to deliver master classes throughout China and clinics at MTA events in the United States. She is an Adjunct Professor at Tarrant County College.

Xie obtained her doctorate in Piano Performance at the University of North Texas, where she won a Teaching Fellowship. She earned degrees and diplomas from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California, and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studying with Dr. Pamela Mia Paul, Norman Krieger, Yong Hi Moon, and Chen Jiang respectively. She is a recipient of the Meadows Artistic Scholarship Award, through which she worked with maestro Joaquín Achúcarro.

Wyatt Martin is an artist with original music and poetry written and performed by a man with a soul beyond his years. The child of missionaries, Wyatt was born in Japan, raised and formally educated in China, and lived in Africa, Mexico, and finally the United States. Today Wyatt calls Texas home.

He and his band, Wyatt & the Harbingers, sing tales of life's adventures, lost stories, love, inspiration, faith, and the wonders of things to come. Wyatt has recorded two solo albums — 'Riddles' and 'Seven Years'.

Juliet Du is a highly accomplished musician and CEO of S&Y Culture Company, specialising in concert planning and management, and a former lead singer and chorus conductor of the Shanghai Philharmonic Choir. She holds a Master of Arts degree from DBU and has won several awards for her conducting, including the Gold Medal at the 6th World Choral Festival.

As a singer she was recognised as one of the top ten singers in the Chinese Love Song Radio and Television Contest, and her performance of the song “Calling” at the Shanghai World Expo was named one of China’s top ten songs.

In 2019 she organised and held the world-famous baritone Milness concert and master class in both Dallas and Shanghai.