Artistic and Teaching Bio
Artistic Bio
Described as “a phenomenal pianist” by Maestro Gerard Schwarz and “a very talented pianist” by legendary pianist Santiago Rodriguez, Dr. Tingting Wu is a vivid, appealing, and innovative pianist. She offers a unique insight into how classical music concerts can become more accessible and understandable for the general audience by combining colored lighting with music to reflect its emotional and harmonic changes through live performances. Based on this ideology, she founded the project ColorMusic. The first trial recital based on this idea successfully premiered in Clarke Recital Hall at the University of Miami in September 2022, gaining massive support from faculty and audience members. From September 2024, She will officially perform series of colored lighting concerts at ColorMusic Hall, 1770 Brickell Ave in downtown Miami.
Aside from her ongoing ColorMusic project, Dr. Wu is the solo pianist who performed all the piano parts for the PBS Musical TV Production “Pictures at an Exhibition”. The production aired on South Florida PBS TV channels in November 2023, and it will also be aired by more than 220 PBS TV Channels, including New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Washington DC, and Houston, among many more cities from 2024-2026. Miami Chinese TV Channel also invited her to perform as the solo pianist at their 2024 Chinese Dragon Year Gala Concert, witnessed by more than a thousand live audience.
In 2023, Dr. Wu was selected among hundreds of doctoral candidates by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium at the University of Miami to give a TED-like speech for her doctoral final project “A Tribute to Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, and Florence Price”, a music project that presents great piano solo music of three underrepresented and neglected female composers from the nineteenth to twentieth century.
In the years 2020 and 2021, Dr. Wu won multiple piano awards, including 1st Prize in the V Odin International Music Online Competition, 2nd prize in the Map International Music Competition, Pro Piano International Competition, and King Peak International Music Competition, Finalist in Triomphe de l’Art International Music Competition, and Top 20 Pianists in Neapolitan Master Competition. She is also one of the favorite pianists of the general audience and judges.
After winning awards, Dr. Wu released multiple music albums and singles on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Pandora among hundreds of music stores from 2021-2024, including the album Colors and Music
and the single Sentimental, which showcases her own composition.
Tingting Wu is an accomplished classical musician and an artist with a diverse palette. Her passion extends beyond traditional boundaries, encompassing film and pop music genres. This diverse background adds a distinctive and captivating dimension to her performances.
Tingting Wu's artistry is a harmonious blend of tradition and innovation, making her a beacon in the world of immersive music shows. As the founder of the groundbreaking project "Colors, Music, and Emotions," Tingting has pioneered immersive colored-lighting piano shows. This innovative project is set to captivate audiences with its fascinating combination of music, lights, and emotions.
She will be the Artist-in-Residence, exclusively performing all piano shows for the project in Brickell, Miami, from 2024 onwards.
Teaching Bio
With a Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Miami since May 2023, Tingting has been an enthusiastic Concert Pianist and a very experienced Piano instructor. She has opened her own piano studio, Dr. Wu's Piano Studio in late 2023.
Her philosophy in teaching piano is: Nothing is impossible in piano, and it’s never too late to begin learning the piano, no matter when you want to start. She also likes to use the simplest method to lead students to find their maximum potential in piano and music, and she also wants to help students to be able to express their emotions through music and enjoy piano playing along the journey.
In the year 2016, she received her bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music (One of the top 5 music schools in the world). She was hired immediately in New York City as a piano instructor at the age of 22. During her one year teaching at NYC, many of her students received the ABRSM excellent levels, including one student Kelvin Lee, who received an extinction score of 132, only in two months of preparation.
During 2017-2019, Tingting was designated as an Associate Instructor in Piano (the position usually is only assigned to Doctoral level students) along with her Master’s degree in piano with full scholarships by Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, to teach college-level students in Piano. Soon and almost simultaneously, she was also hired by the Preparatory School Department of IU in 2018. She was popular among college students and young children as their Piano Professor and their friend, as she received 4.8/5.0 scores on students’ anonymous evaluation forms from 2017-2019.
During her Doctoral Degree studies at the University of Miami, she was appointed as a Teaching Assistant in Piano for her full three years of studying there. She received a 4.8/5.0 score from college-level students’ evaluation forms at the University of Miami.