Violinist-violist hybrid, Christine Wu, performs internationally with recent appearances in Dallas, Cleveland, New York City, Magdeburg, and Köthen, Germany. She has been heard as a soloist with several orchestras ranging from one of America's top orchestras - the Dallas Symphony Orchestra - to the community-based Mesquite Symphony Orchestra. She performed Elgar's Violin Concerto in Severance Hall, home of The Cleveland Orchestra, as the top prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland Institute of...
Violinist-violist hybrid, Christine Wu, performs internationally with recent appearances in Dallas, Cleveland, New York City, Magdeburg, and Köthen, Germany. She has been heard as a soloist with several orchestras ranging from one of America's top orchestras - the Dallas Symphony Orchestra - to the community-based Mesquite Symphony Orchestra. She performed Elgar's Violin Concerto in Severance Hall, home of The Cleveland Orchestra, as the top prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition. She was also named winner of the Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition, Juanita Miller Concerto Competition, and at the Aspen Music Festival and School's Low Strings Concerto Competition as a violist and performed Martinu Rhapsody-Concerto with the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra in 2018.
In October 2020, she will be presenting a full program of works by women and black composers for solo violin and solo viola as one of six finalists for the Berlin Prize for Young Artists competition. As an avid and devoted chamber musician, Christine has performed and collaborated with Joseph Silverstein, Mark Steinberg, Nicholas Mann, and David Geber. She regularly organizes and performs chamber music house concerts in New York City through the Groupmuse platform. Leadership roles as concertmaster for various ensembles culminated most recently with the New York String Orchestra in their 50th Anniversary celebration at Carnegie Hall.
Christine is currently pursuing a Professional Studies Certificate at the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Sylvia Rosenberg and Nicholas Mann. Previously she studied at The Juilliard School and Cleveland Institute of Music with Sylvia Rosenberg, Masao Kawasaki, and Jaime Laredo. She also holds a minor in Business Management from Case Western Reserve University.
Christine has been playing violin since before she turned 3. Her teaching experience extends from volunteer teaching young students who cannot otherwise afford lessons or instruments at Joyful Noise in Cleveland,