Mary Mei Loc Wu
Mary Mei Loc Wu (Chinese: 吳美樂), also known as Mary Wu, is a Chinese classical pianist, now based in Hong Kong.[1]
Career
At an early age, Mary Wu started full time professional music training at the
Royal Overseas League Competition, the Mozart Bicentenary Competition of Asia and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Best Artist Award in Music in 2010. In 2003 she was voted as one of Hong Kong's Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons. She is featured as a major artist in the recently published “Hong Kong Music History (CC Liu, Commercial Press 2014).”[2]
Hailed by
Singapore Arts Festival
, the Asian Pianist Masters Series in Singapore, the International Contemporary Music Festival, Manhattan Hong Kong and the Macau Festival.
As a chamber musician she has performed with
Macau Orchestra
.
Notable recording of Mary Wu included "Fantasia Piano Pieces" by BMG, “ Contemporary Chinese Piano Works” by Paradism and “Ravel Piano Works” under Universal Label, complete Arnold Bax / Ernest Reed violin and piano works with violinist Robert Gibbs on ASV.
Mary Wu currently serves as a faculty member of the
Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and has been a Steinway Artist since 1995.[3]
Discography
- Fantasia Piano Pieces (BMG, 1993)
- Mary Mei-Loc Wu – Piano Classics (中國文化協會, 1995)
- The Chinese Pianoforte (Paradisum, 2000)
- Live at Wigmore (2000)
- Arnold Bax Violin Sonatas, Ballad, Legend (ASV, 2002)
- W. H. Reed (Dutton, 2003)
- Rachmaninov & Barber Cellosonaten (CFM, 2003)
- Arnold Bax Three Violin Sonatas (ASV, 2002)
- Mary Wu Ravel Piano Works (Universal, 2006)
References
- ^ Mary Mei Loc Wu Mary Mei Loc Wu's official website. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- ^ Liu, CC (2014). Hong Kong Music History. Commercial Press.
- ^ Mary Mei-Loc Wu - Steinway & Sons Retrieved 8 December 2014.