CHRISTINE WU

Violinist-violist hybrid Christine Wu has been hailed for her “strikingly bold sound” and “technical facility” (Theater Jones), and 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 Martinů’s Rhapsody-Concerto with the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra in 2018. In October 2021, 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.

Christine studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Cleveland Institute of Music with Sylvia Rosenberg, Nicholas Mann, Masao Kawasaki, and Jaime Laredo. She also holds a minor in Business Management from Case Western Reserve University.

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 3, Op. 27

SESSION 2

E.T. ZWILICH: Fantasy for Solo Violin
F. KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin
L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 7 in C minor. Op. 30, No. 2

SEMI-FINALS

F. POULENC: Sonata, FP. 119
KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
H. WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise Brillante No. 2 in A major, Op. 21

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493

GRAND FINAL

S. PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63