Ming-Ching Wu / Piano
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Taiwanese collaborative pianist Ming-Ching Wu has been featured in concerts and festivals around the world. She serves as official collaborative pianists for yeong Chang (Great Mountains) Music Festival in Korea conducted by violinist Kyung-Wha Chung and cellist Myung-Wha Chung since 2014. She was coach pianist for Chateauville Chamber Opera Project conducted by Maestro Lorin Maazel, where she prepared singers from Peabody Opera Theatre for Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. She also performed publically a large amount of chamber music repertoire with tenor Scott Piper (Chicago Lyric Opera/ University of Michigan), accordionist Stefan Hussong (Hochschule für Musik Würzburg), cellist Amit Peled (Peabody Conservatory), trombonist Denson Paul Pollard (Metropolitan Opera, University of Indiana), Haim Avitsur (Hartt School of Music) and bass trombonist David Taylor (Lincoln Center Chamber Society) in different venues and music festivals.
Grand Prize winner at Baltimore Music Club Piano Competition in 2008, National Taiwan Piano Competition in 2006, and 2005 Taipei City Piano Competition, Ming-Ching was also awarded the Excellence in Accompanying Award and Brooks Smith Award from Eastman School of Music, Vladimir Horowitz Foundation Scholarship from the Juilliard School, Scholarship to Study Abroad from Taiwanese Ministry of Education, and the Taiwanese American Charity and Education Association Scholarship.
Ming-Ching received Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Chamber Music and Piano Accompanying from Eastman School of Music, Graduate Diploma trainings from The Juilliard School, doubled Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance and Chamber Music from Peabody Institute and Bachelor of Music from National Taiwan Normal University. Her instructors include Jean Barr, Margo Garett, Jonathan Feldman, Boris Slutsky, Eileen Cornett, Lina Leh, Thomas Linde and Weilung Li.
She is currently a full-time faculty at the Graduate Institute of Collaborative Piano of National Tainan University of the Arts and the pianist of Crossplay Piano Ensemble and An die Musik Trio.
Grand Prize winner at Baltimore Music Club Piano Competition in 2008, National Taiwan Piano Competition in 2006, and 2005 Taipei City Piano Competition, Ming-Ching was also awarded the Excellence in Accompanying Award and Brooks Smith Award from Eastman School of Music, Vladimir Horowitz Foundation Scholarship from the Juilliard School, Scholarship to Study Abroad from Taiwanese Ministry of Education, and the Taiwanese American Charity and Education Association Scholarship.
Ming-Ching received Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Chamber Music and Piano Accompanying from Eastman School of Music, Graduate Diploma trainings from The Juilliard School, doubled Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance and Chamber Music from Peabody Institute and Bachelor of Music from National Taiwan Normal University. Her instructors include Jean Barr, Margo Garett, Jonathan Feldman, Boris Slutsky, Eileen Cornett, Lina Leh, Thomas Linde and Weilung Li.
She is currently a full-time faculty at the Graduate Institute of Collaborative Piano of National Tainan University of the Arts and the pianist of Crossplay Piano Ensemble and An die Musik Trio.