About Our Conductor

Chairman of the Hong Kong International Flute Competition Matthew Wu studied with
Leng Jian Hua at Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music in his early years.
After graduating from the Conservatory with honors, he obtained a full scholarship to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, studying with Margaret Crawford.
Upon graduation, Wu was awarded the Rachel Percival Scholarship to further his study with Paul Edmund-Davies, Edward Beckett and Phillipa Davies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he completed his postgraduate diploma and a Licentiate in flute performance.

Wu has been active especially in South East Asia and Europe, as an active member in major orchestras including the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonic, and the Asian Youth Orchestra, as well as the Principal Flautist of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.

Additionally Wu has broadcasted and recorded for RTHK Radio 4, as well as the Macau
Cultural Council as the adjudicator for the Youth Music Competition.
In the summer of 2002, he was invited to perform at the Rome Music Festival as the principal flautist of the Rome Festival Orchestra in a performance funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2009, he performed at the Taiwan International Flute Festival as a guest artist and released his first flute CD album, "Music in Air", to great acclaim.

As an instructor, Wu has been teaching at the Hong Kong Academy for performing Arts and The Education University of Hong Kong since 1995, where he was awarded the "Honorary Artist in Residence" in 2013.

To promote flute music in Hong Kong and to foster its standards at an international level,
Wu is the founder, chairman, and music director of the Hong Kong Flute Association and
the Hong Kong Flute Academy. Through organizing events with world class artists such as
the legendary Peter-Lukas Graf, Paul Edmund-Davies, James Galway, and Vincent Lucas, a well as the events, "Around the World - Emmanuel Pahud & Christian Rivet Hong Kong", and "A Celestial Journey from Berlin: Emmanuel Pahud & Marie-Pierre Langlamet in Recital," . Wu has brought together an internationally melodious musical exchange between the flute world in Hong Kong.