Pianist Wu Han’s career has taken her to many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Wigmore Hall in London; Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The 92nd Street Y in New York; the Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, DC; Boston’s Symphony Hall; Cleveland’s Severance Hall; and major concert series in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle. Her international tours have led her to England, Germany, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Japan, and to her native Taiwan, and she appears regularly at the summer festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe, Chamber Music Northwest, and Caramoor. Wu Han is a frequent collaborator with many of today’s finest musicians and ensembles, including the Borromeo, St. Lawrence, and Emerson String Quartets.
With cellist David Finckel, Wu Han recently made her third Wigmore Hall appearance. Other recent concerts include duo performances of the complete Beethoven cycle in Tokyo and New York, and at the summer festivals of Aspen, Santa Fe and Chamber Music Northwest, as well as debuts in Germany and at Finland’s Kuhmo Festival. Wu Han also maintains an active teaching schedule at the Aspen Music Festival and has been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern International Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center.
Wu Han’s wide-ranging musical activities also include the founding of ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company (www.ArtistLed.com). The label’s most recent release features two late masterpieces by Franz Schubert, and has been praised as “a great success on all counts” (AudioPhile Audition).
In August 2003, with cellist David Finckel, Wu Han launched Music@Menlo (www.musicatmenlo.org), a new chamber music festival in Silicon Valley that has attracted widespread attention and international acclaim for its innovative programming, roster of world-class artists, workshop program for top young chamber ensembles, Encounters series featuring the nation’s top musicologists, and a strong visual arts component. Prior to launching Music@Menlo, Wu Han and David Finckel served for three seasons as Artistic Directors of SummerFest La Jolla. In June 2004, having firmly established a reputation as great musical innovators both on and off stage, Wu Han and Finckel were named Artistic Directors of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. |
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