OPUS ONE

Canadian pianist Shirley Wu studied physiology and piano performance at McGill University, Montreal before completed her Master degree in Performance Science at London’s Royal College of Music in 2017. In 2014, she founded Opus One Music (opusone.ca) to promote the social function of chamber music.

As a piano performer, Shirley is often invited to organize and perform at social and diplomatic events. She has also performed publicly in Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, San Francisco and London. She is actively engaged in the
charitable arts movement. In 2017, she attended the autumn musician residency at the Banff Arts Center. In 2019, she participated in the Budapest Concerto Festival.

Shirley conducted research on levels of awareness of Performance Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (PRMDs) among students in Canada, and also helped musicians in concert and exam preparations. Shirley worked at Clinique de l’Artiste from 2018-2019, where she spoke at conferences to help musicians and artists improve their performance. When not expressing herself using Music Language, Shirley contributes to different medias as a trilingual journalist/blogger in Montreal, writing about culture and art. She believes being able to speak and write fluently in English French and Mandarin Chinese three languages is her great strength not weakness, which naturally makes her a unique cultural ambassador who is able to bridge the world.