Meining Wu is a 10-year-old pianist and a 5th grader at Stratford School, living in San Jose, California. After starting her first piano lesson at the age of 6, Meining has been studying with her current teacher Kai Chi Zhu for almost 2 years. She has won top prizes at numerous piano competitions since then, including the 1st Place at KAMSA Competition and Music Legacy Open Competition in 2020, as well as 1st Places at the US Open Music Competition, the US International Open Music Competition and the US New Star Piano Competition in 2019. At the 6th Annual Talented Young Musician Olympia Competition, she won the Grand Prize and performed at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in April 2019. Besides playing piano, Meining also loves art. In 2019, her art work won the Grand Prize at state-wide art contest with over one thousand contestants. Her other hobbies are horseback riding and swimming.
