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Long Wu is the most sought -after opera vocal coach accompanist in China today. He was born in Shanghai in 1959 into an intellectual family. He began piano studies at the age on five, was a child prodigy with perfect pitch and made his piano solo debut playing all Chopin Etudes and Preludes when he was fourteen years old. He went to Beijing in 1979 studied with Prof.Pan Yi-Ming and Prof.Zhao Ping-Guo at the Central Conservatory of Music.During his nine years tenure in the 1980’s as the accompanist for the Chinese Army Chorus, he performed and collaborated with the most celebrated Chinese Singers very extensively throughout China and  with critical acclaims.

In 1989, Long Wu went to the US as the exchange visiting scholar at the Opera Department of State University of New York at Buffalo.In 1990 he was a Presidential Scholarship recipient and enrolled in the graduate music program at SUNY at Buffalo majoring vocal coaching and chamber music.with Prof.Stephen Manes. For five production seasons, he also served as the resident coach accompanist for the Greater Buffalo Opera Company having prepared over twenty operas with world renowned singers and conductors,His outstanding musicianship and performances won high praises from such operatic luminaries as Licia Albanese, Maureen Forrester, Anna Moffo, Christopher Magatsoris and David Effron., and was hailed as “The Unsung Hero”. In 1992, he graduated Pi KappaLamba (National Music Honor Society) and received a MM degree from SUNY/Buffalo. In 1994, Long Wu was awarded a fellowship to study German Art Song accompanying in Salzburg, Austria, coached with Prof.George Kern at the famous Mozarteum.

In 1995, Long Wu began his studies for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree program at Boston University School of Music with Prof.Thomas Stumpf after he received the “Aaron Richmond Fellowship.In 1999 he successfully completed all the required courses for the DMA degree and served on the coaching faculty at Boston University Opera Institute. In 2003, he played the “Yellow River Piano Concerto” with Bermuda Philharmonic with standing ovation from the audience.

In 2004, Dr.Wu  was appointed  Professor of Music a at the Voice and Opera Department at Central Conservatory of Music,as principal coach and music director he has directed  four major operatic productions for the CCOM: Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito, Verdi’s La Traviata ，The Magic Flute ，Madam Butterfly with rave reviews.

For the past twenty five years, Dr.Long Wu has performed in four continents and over twenty countries such as South Africa ,France,Switzerland , Germany, Italy, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Taiwan,Bermuda, Hong Kong, United States, Canada, Iceland, Finland, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and North Korea,etc.Since 1996, Dr.Wu has released seven CDs with labels as US Avatar Records, China Records Corp.and US New England Art Development Corp.He has also been the music director and chief accompanist for the biannual Mondial Chinese Vocalist Concours in Taipei since 1999.