William Wu is a 15-year old high school freshman at St. Albans in Washington, DC and has been studying piano with Marina Alekseyeva since 2018. William has been a part of the Levine Music Honors Program for the last three years, where he has collaborated with other musicians in the program in chamber ensembles. William passed his Level 10 Piano Jury with Distinction and made his orchestral debut with Levine Chamber Orchestra in June 2023.
William has won all the Senior Division piano competitions as an 8th grader, including the Marlin Engel Competition and the Cogen Concerto Competition at Levine. Additionally, he has won top prizes and earned recognition in various regional, national, and international competitions such as the Piano Achievement Awards Competition of NVMTA (Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association), the Chopin International Competition at Hartford and Music International Grand Prix. He was also the recipient of the Franz Liszt Merit Scholarship award, highest at Indiana University Piano Academy, and was invited back to the Young Artist Piano Program at Boston University Tanglewood Institute with a $1,500 Scholarship.
William has performed at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Hylton Performing Arts Center, the Kennedy Center and Embassy of France representing Levine School of Music. He has had masterclasses with Simone Dinnerstein, Tiffany Poon, Stephen Drury, Emanuel Ax, Philip Setzer from the Emerson Quartet and Anna Geniushene. When not playing piano, he enjoys reading, swimming, and drinking boba.
You can find William’s 2024 Contemporary Music Competition piano performance here.