Wu Muye

Wu Muye was born on 23 December 1985 in Beijing, and grew up in Hainan.[1][2] He started taking piano and violin lessons at the age of 4.[1] At 5, he gave his first public performance,[3] and he won his first contest, the Hong Kong Children's Piano Competition, at the age of 9.[3][4] In 1996 he was admitted to the fifth grade of the National Conservatory of Music in Beijing.[5] After graduating in 1999, he moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse,[6][2] having Jacques Rouvier as his mentor.[7][8] After completing the undergraduate program he continued studying at the Conservatoire, despite already having an international career, and graduated in 2009 with a PhD in music.[9]

In 2009, he also became the first Chinese pianist to ever receive the Perfect Piano Performing Artist Medal by the French Ministry of Culture.[1][5][10]

Wu Muye has won several awards and is laureate of many international piano competitions including 3rd Prize at the 2003 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy,[11][12] the Grand-Prix at the 2004 Marguerite-Long-Jacques-Thibaud Competition in Paris, France,[13] and the gold medal at the 2005 Piano Campus International Piano Competition in Pointoise, France.[13][14]

He has performed at many prestigious events such as the Expo Shanghai 2010,[15][16] the 60th Anniversary Gala of UNESCO,[13] at the 50th Anniversary Ceremony for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France[17][18] and at the APEC state banquet[19] hosted for the US president Barack Obama[20][13] in 2014; at the Milan Expo 2015;[21] at the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 G20 Summit;[3][5] at the World Health Organization Meeting dedictated to the 30rd World AIDS Day at the WHO headquarters[22][23] and at the BRICS Leaders Meeting in 2017; and at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2018.[20]

He had two soloist world tours, the Wu Muye "Complete Works of Schubert impromptus" Piano Recital Tour from 2018 to 2019,[19][13] and in December 2019 his Wu Muye "Complete Works of Chopin Waltzes" Piano Recital World Tour started.[24][25]

In December 2018, he opened a piano studio, the Wu Muye Studio, in Hangzhou, that gives non-profit piano lessons to children and teenagers.[26]