Taiwanese-American violinist Pei-Ju Wu enjoys a musical career both as a performing artist and as a teacher. She joined the first violin section of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in 2013 and was appointed Principal Second Violin of the Des Moines Metro Opera in 2018. Most recently, she finished a one-year contract playing with the Nashville Symphony. 

 

Pei-Ju's experience in symphonic orchestra has taken her to perform with the Nashville Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera, Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Chamber Symphony. She has served as the concertmaster for the Woodlands Symphony (TX), Opera in the Heights (TX), interim concertmaster for the Huntsville Symphony (AL), and is now the principal second violin of Des Moines Metro Opera. Her love of chamber music has inspired her to found several chamber music ensembles and series in the past. In 2018 she co-founded a new string quartet in Birmingham, Iron City Strings.

 

Pei-Ju studied with Kathleen Winkler at Rice University, Roman Totenberg at Boston University, Shirley Givens at the Juilliard Pre-College, and Rodney Friend at the Royal College of Music. She graduated magna cum lauda from Boston University and has a Master's Degree in Violin Performance from Rice University.

 

Pei-Ju is a registered Suzuki violin instructor and has studied the Suzuki methods with Ed Kreitman, Terry Durbin, Kathleen Spring, and Teri Einfeldt. She is a faculty member at the Alabama School of Fine Arts (ASFA), and a teacher and artistic advisor at STEP Birmingham. 

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Pei-Ju Wu is a member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) Players, whose mission is to perform newly created music by living Alabama composers. While not performing classical violin, Pei-Ju enjoys covering movie, video game & pop music. Her videos can be found at her YouTube channel.