Hello! I’m so glad you’re here.

music

Taiwanese-American harpist Tiffany Wu is based in NYC and LA. Her classical background serves as the technical foundation for her diverse career in orchestral, theatrical, chamber, solo, and contemporary music.

Throughout her career, Tiffany has been privileged to share the stage with notable artists such as Kate Baldwin, Lang Lang, Patti LuPone, and Anne Akiko Meyers, and has recorded for artists such as Dylan Mulvaney, Vince Bell, and David Sulzer. Her performances have brought her to venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Birdland Jazz Club, and more. As an active pit musician in both theater and opera, Tiffany most recently served as principal harpist for the Off-Broadway production of Stephen Schwartz’s The Baker’s Wife and the New York performances of Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. She previously played for the Broadway First National Tour of The Notebook, Barrington Stage Company’s Camelot, City Lyric Opera’s Carmen, La MaMa Experimental Theater’s production of O-Lan Jones’ Iceland, and more.

In addition to her theater work, Tiffany performs regularly with numerous ensembles throughout New York City, such as the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra and United Nations Orchestra. She previously worked with distinguished conductors including Keith Lockhart, JoAnn Falletta, Gerard Schwartz, Mei-Ann Chen, and Victor Yampolsky. An avid proponent of contemporary music, Tiffany has collaborated with the New York Composers Circle and Maestra First Takes to premiere new works by living composers, including previous work with composers such as Arturo Rodriguez.

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 previously received funding from Local 802’s Music Performance Trust Fund to co-produce a chamber music series featuring living AAPI female composers at museums and art galleries, including the Hunter Dunbar Gallery, Museum of Chinese in America, and Old Stone House of Brooklyn.

Tiffany shares her music with a wide range of audiences, including for companies like Citadel and Anthropologie, and organizations like the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce. Performance highlights include the premiere of Prime Video’s Expats at The Museum of Modern Art, New York Bridal Fashion Week with Tanner Fletcher, the Nespresso x Oatly Barista Edition launch, and the wedding of NBA player De’Aaron Fox. These experiences have brought her to venues such as 620 Loft & Garden, The Yale Club, The Plaza Hotel, and The Morgan Library.

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, Helicon Literary Magazine, and Lily Poetry Review’s Forever Songs Anthology, 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, My Private Professor, 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 the globe, and her students have been accepted to Columbia University, Cornell University, Northwestern University, USC, Blair Academy, Philips Academy, and The Pike School, among others. She teaches harp privately and is a substitute instructor with the Greenwich School of Music. A strong advocate for music education and appreciation, she has held workshops and lectures across the US 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.