Natasha Wu was born in Fountain Valley, California, and now lives in Tainan, Taiwan. She began studying piano at age 6 at a public school that provides music programs for musically-gifted children, and won her first national competition in her first year of study.
She has entered numerous piano competitions throughout Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, and the US. In 2009, Natasha became the first Taiwanese American to place first in the Japanese Classical Music Competition. In 2010, she won her first international piano competition at the Tureck International Bach Competition in New York City, and performed at the concert that followed in Lincoln Center. In 2011 and 2012, she placed second at the Hong Kong Asian Piano Competition, and the following year she won Second Prize at the 2013 Kawai Asia Piano Competition in Wuhan, China. In 2014 Natasha advanced to the second round and came away with the Best Performer award in the eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Moscow. Most recently, she won First Place in the General Category at the 16th Chopin International Piano Competition in Tokyo, Japan.
Natasha has been involved in charity works as well. After winning the Presidential Award in 2012, she donated half of the award money to Yong-Fu Elementary School as an educational fund for the needy. Additionally, for her first solo performance in the same year, Natasha helped raise nearly $1140 in ticket sales and private donations, which she donated to the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families of Northern District in Tainan.
Repertoire
Round I
Mozart Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodie No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S. 244
Round II
Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major, WTC I, BWV 860
Chopin Étude in G-sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 6
Benjamin Lees Fantasia in E minor
Schumann Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
Round III
Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22: I
