DOROTHY WU, Flute

Bachelor of Arts, Rutgers University

Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music

Post-graduate Studies, National Conservatory
(CNSMD) in Lyon, France

Dorothy Wu is a flutist, teacher and producer based in New York City, where she works to uncover the works of artists with purity of substance and style. Often these are multifaceted composers, painters and performers dedicated to exploring and manifesting lives that are symbiotic expressions of all the arts, and representative of the world’s diverse cultures.

For the 2007-08 season, Dorothy has a very active schedule as a chamber recitalist, orchestral musician, teacher, clinician and the producer of art exhibitions and a crossover concert series that fuses classical, world and jazz genres. In October, Dorothy was invited to be the leading member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra (VFO) Flute Quartet, and enjoyed coordinating, programming and performing in chamber concerts at venues that included MoMA and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. In November, Dorothy performed in a landmark ten concert orchestral tour of Europe and the United States with Charles Dutoit and legendary pianist Martha Argerich. To date, she has performed in the major concert halls of over twenty cities in fourteen countries, and has worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

This upcoming summer, Dorothy will return to Switzerland to perform six concerts as flutist in the Verbier Festival Orchestra, to be conducted this year by Paavo Järvi, Manfred Honeck, Valery Gergiev, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos, and Gianandrea Noseda, followed by a tour in the fall with baritone Thomas Hampson and conductor Ludovic Morlot in Milan, Paris, Berlin, Lucerne and Madrid.

Having received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Rutgers University, a master degree in flute performance from Manhattan School of Music and post-graduate studies at the National Superior Conservatory in Lyon, France, Dorothy credits among her teachers and mentors some of the world’s most prominent flutists today: Michael Parloff, Bart Feller, Philippe Bernold, Vicens Prats, and Aurèle Nicolet. A dedicated teacher, Dorothy has taught people of all ages and given classes as a guest artist at The Gramercy Shool (NYC), JCC of Tenafly, Crestwood Music School (Westchester), Robert Wagner School (NYC, M.S.176), Vidya Academy in Belgium, Mahidol University in Bangkok, and at her alma mater, Manhattan School of Music. She has experience working with children with learning disabilities, and also training in Suzuki and Alexander Techniques.