Charlie Wu

Age – 13

Country – Australia

Melbourne-born Charlie Wu is a Year 7 student, and Concertmaster of the School Orchestra at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia. He studies piano with Glenn Riddle at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. In 2024, Charlie made his concerto debut performing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, conducted by Ivan Nikiforchin. Since then he has performed Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D with Les Solistes de Neuchâtel in Geneva, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (Melbourne Sinfonia), Beethoven’s Triple Concerto (Cloud Concert Orchestra), Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (Preston Symphony and Whitehorse Symphony Orchestras), and most recently, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Camerata Orchestra, winning First Prize in the Boroondara Open Concerto Competition. Internationally Charlie was awarded First Prize and Best Performance of a work by a Swiss composer in the Concours International Musicale de Genève in Switzerland and was a Diplomate in the Grand Piano International Piano Competition (Moscow). Locally he has been awarded the Musical Society of Victoria’s Nehama Patkin and Eda Schurmann Awards, and numerous First Prizes in various other competitions.

Charlie has presented solo recitals for the St. Paul’s Cathedral, Scots Church, St. Geroge’s Church, and the Diamond Creek Concert Series. In 2026 he will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Maroondah Symphony Orchestra, Mozart’s Concerto K. 414 with the Mozart Festival Chamber Players and give a solo recital for Camberwell Music Society’s Subscription Concert series.

Charlie is a keen chamber musician, and enjoys playing tennis, swimming and chess.