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香港著名鋼琴家,施坦威鋼琴藝術家
Renowned Pianist & Steinway Artist
鋼琴家吳美樂博士獲鋼琴大師貝利慕特 Vlado Perlemuter (拉威爾的門生)賞識,讚譽她為「同輩中 天份最高的鋼琴手」,她的演奏曾獲小提琴大師曼奴軒勛爵稱許「具濃郁詩意」,也曾被⻄班牙報 譽為 「世界上傑出鋼琴家之一」。歐洲樂評人稱吳氏為「出類拔萃的音樂家,擁有完美的鍵盤控制 及精湛如魔術般的技藝.」。
吳氏的琴音遍及德國、⻄班牙、新加坡等世界多個國家及音樂節。她亦醉心於室樂演奏,曾合作的 音樂家包括小提琴大師曼奴軒勛爵,小提琴家烈桃,鋼琴大師貝利慕特,單簧管大師史托司曼及大 提琴家卡爾等。吳氏曾與加拿大卡爾加里愛樂樂 團、中國中央樂團、廣州交響樂團,星加坡華樂團 等多個樂團合作。另她也曾與BMG、ASV、 DUTTON及環球等國際唱片品牌合作灌錄唱片。
吳美樂獲選為2003年香港大傑出⻘年,2010年香港藝術發展局藝術家年獎(音樂) 及2012年獲⺠政事務局局長頒發藝術文化及學術範疇嘉許獎章 。她亦被錄入劉靖之博士撰寫的 '香 港音樂史論' 為傑出鋼琴家。吳氏與⻄班 牙鋼琴演奏家巴士羅先生為⻄班牙伊維薩國際鋼琴比賽的聯席評審主席。
吳氏畢業於英國皇家音樂學院及耶胡迪梅紐因學院,其後獲美國紐約州立大學音樂藝術博士學位, 歷任香港中文大學音樂系駐校音樂家(講師)。現任教於香港演藝學院和香港中文大學音樂系。
Mary Mei Loc Wu (Chinese: 吳美樂), also known as Mary Wu, is a Chinese classical pianist, now based in Hong Kong.
At an early age, Mary Wu started full time professional music training at the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Royal College of Music, Banff Centre and the State University of New York at Stony Brook where she completed a Doctorate of Music degree. Her teachers include Constance Wu, Betty Drown, Peter Norris, Edward Kendall-Taylor, Phyllis Sellick, Vlado Perlemuter, Louis Kentner and Gilbert Kalish. Her prizes and distinctions include first prize at the Royal Overseas League Competition, the Mozart Bicentenary Competition of Asia and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council's Best Artist Award in Music in 2010. In 2003 she was voted as one of Hong Kong's Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons. She is featured as a major artist in the recently published “Hong Kong Music History (CC Liu, Commercial Press 2014).”
Hailed by Ravel's protégé, late Vlado Perlemuter as “one of the most gifted pianists of her generation”, Mary Wu is also praised by Yehudi Menuhin as having “a captivating poetical quality to her playing”. European music review praises Wu for "her extraordinary artistic quality, absolute mastery over the keyboard and magical virtuosity". Mary Wu has performed worldwide, at concert halls such as Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall in London, Mozarteum Salzburg, Merkin Hall in New York, Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Concert Hall and Guangzhou (Xing Hai) Concert Hall in China. She has also performed at the Ibiza Festival in Spain, the l'Académie de Ravel in France, the Singapore Arts Festival, the Asian Pianist Masters Series in Singapore, the International Contemporary Music Festival, Manhattan Hong Kong and the Macau Festival.
As a chamber musician she has performed with Yehudi Menuhin, Vlado Perlemuter, Richard Stoltzman, Colin Carr, Tasmin Little, the Maggini Quartet, and the Bauhinia Piano Trio in Hong Kong of which she is a founding member. She has appeared as a soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing, the Polish Baltic F.Chopin Philharmonic in Gdańsk (Polish: Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka im. Fryderyka Chopina w Gdańsku), the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and Macau Orchestra.
Notable recordings of Mary Wu included "Fantasia Piano Pieces" by BMG, “ Contemporary Chinese Piano Works” by Paradism and “Ravel Piano Works” under Universal Label, complete Arnold Bax / Ernest Reed violin and piano works with violinist Robert Gibbs on ASV.
Mary Wu serves as a faculty member of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and has been a Steinway Artist since 1995. She is the Co-President of the Ibiza International Piano Competition since 2019.