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music

Harpist Tiffany Wu is based in NYC and LA.

Tiffany’s classical background serves as the technical foundation for her diverse career in performing operas, musicals, pop standards, experimental music, and more. Her performances with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, United Nations Orchestra, and more have brought her to some of the most prestigious concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Tiffany has been privileged to work with notable artists, such as Kate Baldwin, Vince Bell, Dick Griffin, and Anne Akiko Meyers, among others. When not on stage, Tiffany also plays for private clients and engagements, including for companies such as Citadel and Anthropologie. Performance highlights include the premiere of Prime Video’s Expats at The Museum of Modern Art, New York Bridal Fashion Week, the Nespresso x Oatly Barista Edition launch, and the wedding of NBA player De’Aaron Fox. She has also performed at notable venues such as 620 Loft & Garden, The Yale Club, The Plaza Hotel, Birdland, and The Morgan Library.

An avid proponent of new music, Tiffany enjoys workshopping, premiering, and recording new works and musicals by contemporary composers. She has previously worked with the New York Composers Circle and Maestra First Takes, among others. Her personal interests include studying the role of the arts in justice, producing multimedia performance experiences, and exploring music as a civic practice. To this end, she has worked with The Confined Arts, PROTESTRA, and other such organizations to explore the possibilities of socially engaged art.

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 writer. She is fond of poetry, epistolaries, magical realism, and personal essays.

Her writing has received the Edwin L. Shuman Prize for Poetry and Robert Mayo Prize and been published in Black Napkin Press, Figure 1, and Helicon Literary Magazine, among others. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and recognized by the Best of the Net anthologies. Previous clients include Cold Tea Collective, Harp Column, and CreArtBox.

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 hundreds of students across North America, China, and Europe who attend or have been accepted academies and universities including Columbia, 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 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.