Kuei-I Wu

Kuei-I Wu began winning national prizes at the age of nine and is one of the most celebrated pianists to have come from Taiwan.  Praised for her elegant style and exuberant technique, Ms. Wu made her major concerto appearance at the  National Dr. Sun Yet-sen Memorial hall with the National Taiwan Academy of Arts Symphony Orchestra before immigrating to the United States.

Highly sought after as both a soloist and a chamber musician, Ms. Wu has presented performances at numerous festivals in Taiwan, Spain, Austria and here in the United States including a performance of Liszt's Concerto No. 2 at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.  Ms. Wu is also a prize winner of several international piano competitions including the Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, the Promising Artist Award at the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition and New York's Five Towns Music and Arts Foundation Piano Competition.

Ms. Wu received a bachelor's degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with Mach McCray and was named "Outstanding Pianist" at graduation.  While attending the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Boris Slutsky, Ms. Wu was employed as an accompanying assistant and worked with renowned artists and pedagogues, pianist, Leon Fleisher and baritone, John Shirley-Quirk.  Ms. Wu holds a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she studied with Santiago Rodriquez.

Equally adept and passionate about teaching, Ms. Wu has been a member of MTNA and American College of Musicians since 2005.  She has guided numerous students to winning competitions and performing in Carnegie Hall.  Ms. Wu currently teaches at Howard Community College and Hood College while maintaining an active private studio in Gaithersburg, Maryland.