BIOGRAPHY

Praised for his "power, speed and finesse of artists twice his age" (Tribune Star), pianist Elliot Wuu is a 2018 Gilmore Young Artist, one of the most prestigious honors in piano, and a winner of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant. A Young Steinway Artist, Wuu has appeared as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra, performing alongside artists including violinist Augustin Hadelich, pianist Lang Lang, and the Dover Quartet.

In 2026, Wuu won First Prize at the Lloyd Piano Competition with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and was named a Laureate of the 2025 American Piano Awards. That same year, he released Onward on the Steinway & Sons label, a recording of works by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, and Debussy. Abroad, he recently performed at Le Piano Symphonique in Switzerland.

Beyond performing, Wuu serves as the Artistic Director of The Summit Series, the signature artist-in-residence program at the Conservatory of the Arts at Valley Christian Schools in San Jose. The series brings world-class artists and master teachers to the Bay Area for lessons, masterclasses, and performances, giving students direct mentorship from GRAMMY® award winners, distinguished faculty, and the world's top soloists.

In 2015 alone, Wuu took First Prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists, Second Prize and the Schubert Prize at the International e-Piano Junior Competition, Third Prize and the Mozart Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, and Second Prize and the Best Performance award at the Bösendorfer and Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition. He went on to win the 2017 National YoungArts Competition, and was named a 2014-2016 Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation and a 2016-2021 MTAC Young Artist Guild member, the highest honor given to California music students.

Wuu has performed across the U.S., France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and China. In New York, he has played the United Nations Headquarters in the presence of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the WQXR Greene Space, and Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium for the GRAMMY® Salute to Classical Music. He has also appeared at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the Gilmore Festival, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Aspen, Four Seasons Chamber Music, La Jolla Music Society, the Hilton Head Bravo! Piano Festival, and the Chopin Foundation of the United States. In 2013, he was one of twelve young pianists chosen worldwide for the inaugural Lang Lang Junior Music Camp in Munich, performing in concerts and masterclasses. He is an alum of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, where he remains active in performance, recording, and mentorship with Lang Lang, and has since been featured on WQXR's Young Artists Showcase, Performance Today, NPR's From the Top, and The Violin Channel.

Wuu made his orchestral debut at 16 with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, performing Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. He has since appeared as soloist with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Parnassus, and the Arad State Philharmonic in Romania, among others. He has also studied in masterclasses with Dame Fanny Waterman, Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, and Ruth Slenczynska.

Born in September 1999 in Fremont, CA, Wuu began piano at age six. Throughout high school he was a music scholarship student, studying with Yoshikazu Nagai at the San Francisco Conservatory Pre-College and at the Valley Christian High School Conservatory of the Arts, following earlier training with Jed Galant and Rose Chen. A Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School, Wuu earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees under Robert McDonald, graduating with the William Schuman Prize, Juilliard's commencement award for outstanding achievement and leadership in music.