Wu Ying, pianist, is professor and doctoral supervisor of piano department at Central Conservatory of Music and President of the Piano society of Chinese Musicians’ Association. Prof. Wu is also an immortal artist of Steinway & Sons.
Wu Ying was born in Shanghai to a musical family, his father is a composer and a musicologist and mother a pianist. He received his first instruction from his mother at the age of five. Wu graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music China in Beijing and got his master’s degree under the tutelage of Prof. Zhu Gongyi. Then he went to Vienna and studied with Paul Badura-Skoda. In 1984, he graduated from University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, became a faculty member in Central Conservatory of music China the same year. In 1991, the Chinese State Council and the State Education Commission granted him a Special Contribution Award. He went to the Piano Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1994, and in 2004 he went back to the Central Conservatory of Music China in Beijing. He served as head of piano department in Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Central Conservatory of Music and Xi’an Conservatory of Music.
He performed in China and many European countries such as Czech Republic, Romania, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, France and Greece. He appeared in recitals in BBC, the Enescu Music Festival in Bucharest, and Chopin Music Festival in Poland. He frequently appears on TV, collaborated with many orchestras in China, and made solo, chamber music and concerto CD recordings on those performances.
He has been on the panel of judges for many international piano competitions, including Concours de Geneve International Music Competition, Busoni International Piano Competition Bolzano, Paderewski International Piano Competition Bydgoszcz, International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna, Liszt Ferenc International Piano Competition Budapest, 10th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Cooper International Competition Oberlin, James Mottram International Piano Competition Manchester. He also served as jury member for many international competitions in China, such as Harbin International Music Competition, Shenzhen International Piano Concerto International Competition and Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians, and was the chairman of jury for many annual Golden Bell Prizes.
