Jieyin Wu, frequent harpist for the acclaimed San Francisco Symphony, is internationally recognized as a soloist and ensemble player. She has appeared in performances around the globe, including Shanghai, Beijing, Europe, Tel Aviv and the United States. In 2012, she premiered Meredith Monk's chamber music "Realm Variations" at Carnegie Hall. In 2018, Suzhou River Fantasia, commissioned and premiered by Jieyin Wu, was selected as the repertoire for the Fourth Hong Kong International Harp Competition.
Ms. Wu's vast ensemble work includes, among many others, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. Ms. Wu was the selected performer at the American Harp Society National Conference in 2006, and in 2008, she made a televised concert appearance at the National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi. Ms. Wu’s lively concert schedule has included the Stanford New Music Ensemble for the Modern Music Festival in Beijing and Shanghai (2011) and, with the San Francisco Symphony, the American Mavericks tour (2012), European Concert Tour in 2014, and the Asian Concert Tour (2016). In 2017 and 2019, Ms. Wu was invited to join the teaching faculty for the summer camp of the National Youth Orchestra of China, which concluded with performances at the Carnegie Hall. In 2020, Ms. Wu was invited to perform at Lyon & Healy Harptacular concert series in San Francisco. In 2022, Ms. Wu premiered John Adams’s opera Antony and Cleopatra with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Ms. Wu also performed for Andrea Bocelli’s tour concert in San Francisco in 2022, and recorded for the soundtrack of the Universal motion picture Renfield in 2023.
The Shanghai-born harpist began her musical training at the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of eight. In 1998, Ms. Wu received a full scholarship at the Samuel Rubin Israeli Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, Israel. She completed her music education in the United States, receiving both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.