Born in Hong Kong, Mary Wu gave her first public performance at an early age and has been captivating audiences ever since in Austria, Poland, Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, the United States and thoughout Asia. Highly acclaimed for her piano playing, Ms. Wu is said to surprise with "her musical variety, profundity and sensitivity" by Vlado Perlemuter and "... a captivating poetical quality to her playing" by the late Lord Menuhin. She has performed in many of the world's major concert halls and with international orchestras and chamber musicians.

She has performed with the late Monsieur Vlado Perlemuter in Queen Elizabeth Hall in UK, with the late Lord Menuhin in UK and Germany. She is also a founding member of the Bauhinia Piano Trio formed in 1995.

She has recorded for the BMG, ASV, Dutton Sound, Paradisum and Hugo, CFM Deutschland labels that include solo and chamber music CDs, (including Contemporary Chinese Piano Works, the complete Arnold Bax and complete W. H. Reed Violin and Piano compositions with British violinist Robert Whysall-Gibbs Cello, Piano Sonatas of Barber and Rachmaninoff with the German cellist Wolfgang Nuesslein), of works by classical and contemporary composers. She has given all-Chopin programmes and recently gave all-Ravel programmes in many major concert halls in China under the invitation of the Alliance Francaise Chine.

Her prizes include the Clavichord and Harpsichord Prizes; Chappell Gold Medal - the most prestigious pianist prize given at the Royal College of Music; the London Royal Overseas-League Music Competition and the Mozart Bicenntennary International Piano Competition of Asia. She has performed as a soloist with the Polish Gdansk Philharmonic Orchestra, Calgary Symphony Orchestra in Canada, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.

She completed her doctoral degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA in 1992. Her teachers include Betty Drown, Peter Norris, Louis Kentner, Vlado Perlemuter, Kendall-Taylor and Gilbert Kalish and Constance Wu.

Ms. Wu was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Awardees Hong Kong in 2003. She has been invited to be jury member in several competitions including the Ibiza International Piano Competition in Spain. Her upcoming performances include solo recitals in Spain and the UK where she will also be collaborating with the Maggini String Quartet.