Taiwan-based Filipino cellist Victor Coo is currently a full-time Assistant Professor for cello and chamber music at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and also teaches at the National Kaohsiung Normal University.  An active chamber musician, he is a founding-member and cellist of the Voyage String Quartet, and principal cellist of Taiwan Connection Chamber Orchestra, he has collaborated both international and local musicians.  Also a regular recitalist and soloist, he recently performed the Tyzen Hsiao Cello Concerto with the Taipei Chinese Orchestra.

A Doctoral of Musical Arts graduate at the Michigan State University, he also obtained degrees at the University of Maryland, Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) and a graduate of the Philippine High School for the Arts.  His principal teachers include Suren Bagratuni, Evelyn Elsing, Johanne Perron, Wilfredo Pasamba, and Amador Tamayo.  He attended music festivals such as Fontainebleau, Sarasota, Bowdoin, MasterWorks, and Interlochen; working with cellists such as Peter Wiley, Steven Doane, Ron Leonard, Timothy Eddy, Henri Demarquette, and Herre-Jan Stegenga.

He is based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, with his pianist-wife, Ya-Hsin Wu, and two kids.