01/06/2026
Congratulations Elliot! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
ELLIOT WUU, 2015 HHIPC 1ST PRIZE WINNER, IN STEINWAY DEBUT ALBUM
Steinway & Sons released Elliot Wuu's debut album, Onward - Debussy, Bach, Schumann, Schubert (STNS 30193) on January 2, 2026. A Young Steinway Artist, Gilmore Young Artist, and laureate of the 2025 American Piano Awards, Wuu has received numerous top honors at prestigious international competitions. This release showcases his artistry in compelling performances of Debussy’s beloved Suite Bergamasque, Bach’s Capriccio, Schumann’s Kinderszenen, and Schubert’s magnificent “Wanderer” Fantasie. The album is available on all popular streaming services.
Praised for his “power, speed and finesse of artists twice his age” (Tribune Star), pianist Elliot Wuu captivates audiences with his colorful tone, sensitive musicality, and emotional depth.
Wuu has earned top prizes in numerous international competitions. In 2015, he won First Prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists. That same year, he received Second Prize and the Schubert Prize at the International e-Piano Junior Competition. He also won Third Prize and the Mozart Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, as well as Second Prize and the Best Russian Performance Award at the Bösendorfer and Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition. He is also a 2017 National YoungArts Competition winner, a 2014–2016 Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, and a 2016–2021 member of the Music Teachers’ Association of California Young Artist Guild, the highest distinction for California music students.
Wuu has appeared in major venues across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Carnegie Hall’s Grammy Salute to Classical Music, the WQXR Greene Space, and Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. He has performed in prestigious festivals including the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Music@Menlo, Aspen Festival, Ravinia Festival, La Jolla SummerFest, Hilton Head BravoPiano!, and the Chopin Foundation of the United States. In 2013, he was one of twelve pianists worldwide selected for the inaugural Lang Lang Junior Music Camp in Munich, performing alongside and working with Lang Lang. His performances have also been featured on WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase, NPR’s From the Top, and American Public Media’s Performance Today.
Wuu made his orchestral debut at age 16 with the Hilton Head Symphony, performing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. He has since appeared with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Lansing Symphony, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Terre Haute Symphony, Symphony Parnassus, and the Arad State Philharmonic in Romania, among others.
Born in Fremont, California, Wuu began his piano studies at age six. He studied with Yoshikazu Nagai at the San Francisco Conservatory Pre-College, with earlier instruction from Jed Galant and Rose Chen, and attended Valley Christian High School Conservatory of the Arts. A recipient of the Kovner Fellowship at The Juilliard School, he earned both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees under the tutelage of Robert McDonald.
