Elliot Wuu
2018 GILMORE YOUNG ARTIST Elliot Wuu
Born in Fremont, California in 1999, Elliot Wuu began studying piano at the age of six. He was a pre-college student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and attended Valley Christian High School and Conservatory of the Arts in San Jose, California. Most recently, he has accepted a full scholarship to attend The Juilliard School.
In 2017, Wuu was named the winner of the National Young Arts Competition and was a US Presidential Scholar in the Arts semifinalist. He is a Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation and a 2016-2021 MTAC Young Artist Guild (YAG) member, the highest honor bestowed to a California music student. In 2013, he was selected as one of the twelve pianists to participate in the inaugural Lang Lang Junior Music Camp in Munich, Germany, and he has performed in master classes for Dame Fanny Waterman, Leon Fleisher, and Gary Graffman.