Chu Yue
The Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music
MMB Alumnus
Chu Yue joined the Morningside Music Bridge program as a student for the first time in 2000 and then moved to North America to continue to explore his passion for music. His musical education included studies at the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School (Beijing) with Yuan Wu; the Conservatory Music Academy at Mount Royal University (Calgary) with Hung-Kuan Chen; the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston) under the guidance of both Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun; the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) with Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Symour Lipkin, and Meng-Chieh Liu; and the Yale School of Music (New Haven) with Peter Frankl. Other key mentors included Richard Goode, Kim Kashkashian, Menahem Pressler, Richard Stoltzman, Fou Ts’ong, Donald Weilerstein, and Madame Zhou Guangren.
Chu won first prizes in the 2011 Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition and the 2012 Wideman International Piano Competition. As a soloist, he has appeared under the baton of conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Robert Spano, David Loebel, and has toured and performed with orchestras like the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. As a collaborative artist, Chu performed with a variety of renowned chamber ensembles and artists, including the Borromeo String Quartet, the Parker String Quartet, the Far Cry, the Eighth Blackbird, Zuill Bailey, Na Mula, Roberto Diaz and Itzhak Perlman.
Dedicated to music education Chu has taught at many prestigious summer festivals, including Morningside Music Bridge. In 2023 Chu was appointed as a member of the piano faculty at the Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
