Horn Performance
University of British Columbia
Master of Music
FRENCH HORN PERFORMER & MUSIC EDUCATOR
Ray Wu.
Vancouver, Canada
A life in music.
On stage. In collaboration.
Through teaching.
PERFORMANCE / COLLABORATION / EDUCATIONDiscover the profile ↓
01 — PROFILE
A musical life,
across borders.
Ray Wu is a Vancouver-based French horn performer and music educator. His work spans orchestral performance, chamber music, and teaching, with musical experiences across Canada, the United States, and China.
His musical work brings together orchestral performance and chamber music. Teaching is an equally important part of his musical life, helping students develop their own musical voice.
As a soloist, he performed Reinhold Glière’s Horn Concerto, Op. 91 with a symphony orchestra in China in 2016.
After Glière’s Horn Concerto
With Joe Hisaishi — a musical exchange
02 — PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
In good company.
Selected orchestral collaborations
01
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
02
Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra
03
Vancouver Opera
04
Victoria Symphony Orchestra
05
Turning Point Ensemble
06
Fujian Symphony Orchestra
A considered, personal approach to learning the horn.
Ray teaches horn in Vancouver and Richmond and has worked with students from age nine through adulthood. His teaching experience includes work as a Horn Instructor at Douglas College, horn instruction at St. George’s School and school-band clinics in Coquitlam, Burnaby, and Vancouver.
Douglas College
Horn Instructor
04 — EDUCATION
Grounded in
craft.
French Horn Performance
Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Graduate Performance Diploma (GPD)
05 — FROM THE ARCHIVE
Recent performances.
PERFORMANCES, LESSONS & COLLABORATIONS