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Taiwanese-American harpist Tiffany Wu 吳欣穎 (she/her) is based in NYC and LA.

She is passionate about creating multimedia performance experiences and exploring music as a civic practice. Though classically trained, Tiffany enjoys a diverse career performing operas, musicals, pop standards, experimental, and more. She’s previously performed with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, United Nations Orchestra, and more at venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art. Tiffany has been privileged to work with notable artists, such as Kate Baldwin, Vince Bell, and Dick Griffin, Anne Akiko Meyers, among others. When not on stage, Tiffany also plays for private clients, including companies such as Amazon and Anthropologie. An avid proponent of new music, Tiffany enjoys workshopping, performing, and recording works by contemporary composers. Her current personal interests include studying the role of the arts in justice, and exploring the intersectionality between literature and song. To this end, she has worked with The Confined Arts, PROTESTRA, and other such organizations to explore the possibilities of socially engaged art.

Upcoming engagements include a run of Oklahoma!, and chamber concerts featuring contemporary female composers at the Museum of Chinese in America and Hunter Dunbar Projects.

She holds performance degrees from Northwestern University and New York University, and her principal teachers include Lyric Opera harpists Elizabeth Cifani and Lynn Williams, and jazz harpist Brandee Younger. In her spare time, she forgets her tea on the windowsill, enjoys Ghibli movies, writes poetry, and is a passably acceptable plant mom.

writing

Tiffany is (also) a freelance writer and ghostwriter. She is fond of poetry, speculative fiction, magical realism, and personal essays.

Some of her work is featured in Black Napkin Press, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, Figure 1, and Helicon Literary Magazine. She is the recipient of the Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Poetry, the Robert Mayo Prize, Best of the Net Finalist, and was a Pushcart Prize Nominee. Previous clients include Cold Tea Collective, Harp Column, CreArtBox, and others.

Tiffany received her B.A. in English Literature with Honors from Northwestern University.

Teaching

A passionate pedagogue with a decade of teaching experience, Tiffany teaches both harp and literature. She has taught over 100 students from all across North America, China, and Europe, and they have been accepted to prestigious private academies and universities including USC, Blair Academy, Philips Academy, and The Pike School. As a harp instructor, she teaches privately and is a substitute instructor with the Greenwich School of Music. She is a strong advocate for music education and appreciation, and has held dozens of musical workshops and performance-lectures at venues across Southern California and New York City for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Tiffany received pedagogical training in writing and music at Northwestern University and taught as an adjunct harp instructor at NYU.