Here is some description about her:
(Source: TVGS)
Born in Shanghai, China, Mdm Elaine Wu has ardent love of music since childhood. She was the first award winner in the 1st Shanghai Children's Music competition of 1939 in shanghai after 1 year's piano study. Then she was introduced to study with the world's famous pianist, Maestro Mario Paci who is the grand pupil of Franz Liszt and conductor of former Shanghai Municipal Symphony Orchestra.
She made her debut in 1949: playing Beethoven's Piano concerto No. 1 with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and won extraordinary fame. She also taught in Shanghai Conservatory of music and Mdm Sun Yat-sien Children Ensemble. She also worked in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra both as pianist and chamber musician.
In 1954 she was both the pianist and chamber musician in the Central symphony Orchestra in Beijing. She was the first pianist to play in the joint-recital with the famous violinist Yang Bim Suen. The show was warmly welcomed. She was conferred the title of "First Class National Pianist" and then the Prime Minister Zhou Enlai met her in Zhongnanhai. In order to expand music field, since 1982, she studied the art of piano performing and the new trend "Visualization Teaching Method" with Ozan Marsh, president of American Pianists Association and won the certificate of 'wonderful musician'.
Her rendering is enthusiastic delicate, good quality and variety of tone. She can express the compositions from the bottom of the music mingled with the literature, art painting and nature. She turned her ardent love of music to the unusual music.
Apart from the piano teaching and performing, she also composed and arranged numerous Chinese piano music including the piano part of the well -known violin concerto Butterfly Lovers, and Cantonese music Peace and Prosperity.
Living in Singapore, she keeps active in piano solo and accompaniment. In 2004, she joined Singapore's Bai-He Lady Chorus in the 7th International Chorus Festival in China and won award of Excellence Piano Accompaniment. She nurtured and trained the adult students using the new pedagogy methods she learned in USA and is widely welcomed. Elaine Wu passed away in Singapore on 20 April 2019 at 88 year old.
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She made her debut in 1949: playing Beethoven's Piano concerto No. 1 with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and won extraordinary fame. She also taught in Shanghai Conservatory of music and Mdm Sun Yat-sien Children Ensemble. She also worked in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra both as pianist and chamber musician.
In 1954 she was both the pianist and chamber musician in the Central symphony Orchestra in Beijing. She was the first pianist to play in the joint-recital with the famous violinist Yang Bim Suen. The show was warmly welcomed. She was conferred the title of "First Class National Pianist" and then the Prime Minister Zhou Enlai met her in Zhongnanhai. In order to expand music field, since 1982, she studied the art of piano performing and the new trend "Visualization Teaching Method" with Ozan Marsh, president of American Pianists Association and won the certificate of 'wonderful musician'.
Her rendering is enthusiastic delicate, good quality and variety of tone. She can express the compositions from the bottom of the music mingled with the literature, art painting and nature. She turned her ardent love of music to the unusual music.
Apart from the piano teaching and performing, she also composed and arranged numerous Chinese piano music including the piano part of the well -known violin concerto Butterfly Lovers, and Cantonese music Peace and Prosperity.
Living in Singapore, she keeps active in piano solo and accompaniment. In 2004, she joined Singapore's Bai-He Lady Chorus in the 7th International Chorus Festival in China and won award of Excellence Piano Accompaniment. She nurtured and trained the adult students using the new pedagogy methods she learned in USA and is widely welcomed. Elaine Wu passed away in Singapore on 20 April 2019 at 88 year old.
More about Elaine Wu Yili at Wikipedia.
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