Praised by the Seattle Times as “Simply marvelous” and Taiwan’s Liberty Times for “astonishingly capturing the spirit of the music,” violinist Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, and educator throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Wu has collaborated in concerts with generations of renowned artists including Yefim Bronfman, James Ehnes, Lynn Harrell, Leila Josefowicz, Kim Kashkashian, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Thomas Quasthoff, Yuja Wang, and members of the Alban Berg, Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, Miró, and Tokyo string quartets at prominent venues across the country. She has also collaborated as a guest violist with the Dover, Orion, and Shanghai Quartets. Wu is a recipient of many awards including the Milka Violin Artist Prize from the Curtis Institute of Music, and third prize at the International Violin Competition of David Oistrakh. She has taught at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California, the Encore School for Strings, the Curtis Institute of Music’s Young Artist Summer Program and Yale School of Music’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Passionate about programming, Wu is the Music Director of the New Asia Chamber Music Society, Director of Chamber Music at the Hidden Valley Music Seminars, program creator of Sunkiss’d Mozart, and Artistic Partner for the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles. She plays on 2021 Samuel Zygmuntowicz violin and a 2015 Stanley Kiernoziak viola.