“A pianist of true distinction, meaning everything she plays has a form of originality and imagination—really, you must hear her!”
- David Dubal
Hailed as “a national rising star” by the China Musical Weekly, 24-year-old pianist Hui Wu has been praised by the New York Times as a “sparkling” player and Harry Rolnick as “incredible”. Her versatility and musical talent has been recognized on stage for her wide-ranging repertoire encompass from Bach to Lindberg. In the upcoming 2011-2012 season, performances include two recitals and masterclasses in Xi’An and ZhuHai, China, Eric Nathan’s Three by Three (2009) and Remembrance (2010) in Cornell University, Magnus Lindberg’s Action-Situation-Signification with Jeffery Milarsky on the contemporary ensemble Axiom’s opening night concert in Lincoln Center, Pierre Boulez’s Derive I and Crumb’s Eleven Echoes of Autumn in ChamberFest 2012, Works by John Cage on FOCUS! 2012 festival and a multimedia concert on five new commission works in Morse Recital Hall at The Juilliard School.
In the 2010-2011 season, Ms. Wu has performed with Jerome Lowenthal in a sold-out All-Liszt concert in GuangZhou, China. She has premiered Paul Chihara’s Bagatelles(2010) and Elliott Schwartz’s Concerto III
(NY premiere) with Joel Sachs and the New Juilliard Ensemble in addition to performing Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (without conductor) at Juilliard’s Chamberfest and Kurtag’s Messages de Feu Demoiselle R. V. Troussova in the Tully Scope Festival in Lincoln Center. Hui has been invited to the Taos School of Music where she collaborated with incredible artists such as Robert McDonald, Michael Tree, and the Brantano, Barromeo, and the ShangHai Quartets. In past seasons, Ms. Wu has performed extensively throughout the U.S., China and Germany. She has appeared the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Xia’men Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Wu’s performances have been broadcast live on WQXR 93.6 FM.
As an avid chamber musician, Hui has been invited to prestigious festivals such as at Taos School of Music, Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, International Summer Music Festival in Goslar, Germany, PianoTexas Festival, and Beijing International Music Festival and Academy. Her mentors and collaborators include musical legends such as Michel Beroff, Malcolm Bilson, Peter Donohoe, Peter Frankl, Margo Garrett, Joseph Kalichstein, Seymour Lipkin, Susan Narucki, Charles Neidich, Menahem Pressler, William Sharp, Gary Wedow, GuangRen Zhou among others.
As a champion of new music and a dynamic composer herself, Ms. Wu has performed and premiered works by contemporary composers from Cornell University, Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles and The Juilliard School. Ms. Wu’s percussion trio, string quartet, and piano concerto has been premiered in Double Visions concert series at Juilliard. Recently, her Three Little Pieces(2011) for Orchestra has been premiered under the baton of pianist and conductor Euntaek Kim and the Double Visions Orchestra. Ms. Wu has collaborated with Juilliard’s Dance Division on her vocal piece Simogatas for soprano and piano four hands.
A native of China, Ms. Wu started her musical training at age of four. At age of thirteen, she made her debut recital in GuangDong Concert Hall with 12 Chopin Etudes and Liszt Rhapsodies and received high praises. Ms. Wu has won numerous competitions including first prizes in the Kosciusko Chopin Competition in New York, the Murray Dranoff International Artists Two Pianos Competition in Miami, the 65th Steinway International Piano Competition and the National Piano Competition (professional Group) in Beijing. Among her other awards, Hui has also won prizes in the Ettlingen International Competition in Germany, the Corpus Christi International Competition, Young Artists Concerto Competition in Texas, the National Youth Piano Competition of GulangYu International Piano Art Festival and the Golden Clock Piano Competition in China.
An active member of the contemporary ensemble AXIOM and NJE in New York. Ms. Wu is currently studying at The Juilliard School with scholarship under the tutelage of Philip Lasser, Matti Raekallio and Jerome Lowenthal. Her other teachers have included QiFang Li, the former professor emeritus Jing Yang in Central Conservatory in Beijing, ZiLing Zhao, Galina Popova, JingSong Xian and the former Daoer Xiong in GuangZhou XingHai Conservatory in China.
For more information about Hui, please visit www.huiwupianist.com