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Pianist Di Wu joined the Astral Artists roster as a winner of its 2007 National Auditions. Astral featured the native of Xiamen, China as soloist with Symphony in C in a critically acclaimed performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3. Selected as one of 12 featured “Young Artists: More Thrills of Discovery” for Musical America’s 2008 edition, Ms. Wu was a recent finalist at the XIII Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She won her first competition at the age of six, and debuted with the Beijing Philharmonic at 14. Since then she has appeared with the New York Pops in Carnegie Hall, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Rockland, Bryan, and Terre Haute symphony orchestras. As the winner of the Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Recital Award, she made her Alice Tully Hall debut in May 2009. As a recitalist, Ms. Wu has performed in numerous American cities as well as in Barbados, Canada, and Hong Kong, and recently performed in recital for the Gilmore Young Artist Series. She toured Europe, performing at Germany’s Klavier Festival Ruhr and Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund, the Musées d’Orsay and de Grenoble in France, and in Bolzano, Italy. The winner of the 2005 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, she also captured first prizes at the Great Neck Young Musician Competition, the Young Musicians Competition, and the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition, where she returned for an encore recital, broadcast worldwide. Di Wu holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Gary Graffman and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at Juilliard, under Joseph Kalichstein and Robert McDonald.