Elliot Wuu
ELLIOT WUU (24)
Hometown: Freemont, Calif.
Current residence: New York City
Elliot Wuu has captured audiences with colorful tones, sensitive musicality and emotional depth in his music. He is a Young Steinway Artist, received the 2018 Gilmore Young Artist award, and is a winner of the Salon de Virtuosi 2021 Career Grant.
Wuu has performed in major venues in the US, France, Italy, Germany, UK, Poland, Romania, and China. In New York City, he has performed at the UN Headquarters, the WQXR Greene Space, and Carnegie Hall. Other concert highlights include the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Aspen and Ravinia Festivals, La Jolla Music Society, Hilton Head Bravo Piano Festival, and Chopin Foundation of the United States. He was also featured on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase and NPR’s From the Top radio programs.
After making his debut at age 16 with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra playing Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” Wuu has performed with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Indiana Philharmonic, Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, among others. Born in 1999 in Fremont, CA, he began piano at age six. He studied with Yoshikazu Nagai at the San Francisco Conservatory Pre-College, as well as at the Valley Christian High School Conservatory of the Arts. The recipient of a Kovner Fellowship Award at The Juilliard School, he received a BM and MM degrees under the tutelage of Robert McDonald.