駐團指揮-吳曜宇

指揮｜吳曜宇 Yao-Yu Wu

法國貝桑頌國際指揮大賽中首獎、樂團大獎及觀眾大獎得主，台灣指揮家吳曜宇在年僅24歲時贏得此一最具盛名的國際比賽，嶄露頭角。2023年時更是獲得了香港國際指揮大賽亞軍，並同時囊括新委約作品最佳演繹獎及現場觀眾大獎。

他熱情優雅、富感染力的指揮風格獲各方高度評價，被視為年輕一代最具希望的指揮家。現為高雄市交響樂團駐團指揮，並曾於2021/22與2022/23樂季擔任國家交響樂團（台灣愛樂）協同指揮，以及台北愛樂青年管弦樂團音樂總監暨首席指揮。

吳曜宇曾指揮過多個知名樂團，包括聖彼得堡交響樂團、波蘭國家電台交響樂團、法國洛林國家交響樂團、法國波爾多國家樂團、法國羅亞爾河國家交響樂團、香港小交響樂團、澳門交響樂團、國家交響樂團（台灣愛樂）、台北市立交響樂團、國立台灣交響樂團、台北愛樂等，足跡遍及歐亞多個城市。合作過的音樂家包括Tzimon Barto、Jean-Daniel Bugaj、Olivier Charlier、Claire Huangci、Jakub Jakowicz、Lang Lang、Jehye Lee、Dmitry Masleev、Daniel Müller-Schott、Nemanja Radulović、Nikolai Saratovsky、Alexei Volodin、林昭亮、林品任、劉孟捷、盧易之、胡乃元、曾宇謙、吳蠻、魏靖儀、楊文信等。

吳曜宇的錄音作品有：2019年受國立台灣交響樂團邀請錄製台灣民謠專輯，以及同年與著名琵琶演奏家吳蠻、巴伐利亞電台交響樂團前首席大提琴家楊文信錄製作曲家陳世慧的當代音樂作品。

吳曜宇亦不時為歌劇執棒，2019年在國家交響樂團（台灣愛樂）的《托斯卡》中擔任呂紹嘉的助理指揮，並在該作品的巡迴音樂會中擔任客座指揮。其他指揮的歌劇包括：2014年台灣歌劇工作坊的《糖果屋》、2013年台北藝術大學的《夢遊女》等。

 吳曜宇也熱衷於與大眾分享他對音樂的熱愛，除了曾多次受邀於節慶音樂會等演出中擔任指揮；在教育方面亦不遺餘力，他不但藉由台北愛樂青年管弦樂團推廣音樂文化，亦透過各大院校的講座、大師班及演講等，分享自己對音樂的見解。

 吳曜宇曾獲《PAR表演藝術》雜誌評選為「2013音樂年度人物」，並獲提名為2014年「台灣十大傑出青年」候選人。為追求更高藝術價值，吳曜宇推辭了2017/18樂季的大部份音樂會，負笈維也納表演藝術大學繼續深造。

Praised for his passionate and elegant conducting style, Taiwanese conductor Yao-Yu Wu is regarded as one of the most promising conductors of his generation. He first came to international attention in 2013 at the age of 24 when he won the First Prize, Orchestra Award and Audience Award at the 53rd Besançon International Conducting Competition for Young Conductors, recently also won the Second Prize, Audience Prize (Live Audience,) and Best Interpretation of the New Commissioned Work at the 2nd Hong Kong International Conducting Competition in 2023.

From the 2023/24 season, Yao-Yu Wu begins the position as Resident Conductor of Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra. He previously served as Associate Conductor of the Taiwan Philharmonic from 2021/22 to 2022/23 seasons as well as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Taipei Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

Wu has performed extensively in Europe and Asia with orchestras such as the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Macao Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Philharmonic etc. He has enjoyed working with artists such as Tzimon Barto, Jean-Daniel Bugaj, Olivier Charlier, Claire Huangci, Jakub Jakowicz, Lang Lang, Dmitry Masleev, Daniel Müller-Schott, Nemanja Radulović, Nikolai Saratovsky, Alexei Volodin, Cho-Liang Lin, Richard Lin, Meng-Chieh Liu, Nai-Yuan Hu, Yu-Chien Tseng, William Wei, Wen-Sinn Yang etc.

In 2019, Wu was invited by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra to record a Taiwanese folk music album. In the same year, he recorded an album of contemporary composer Shi-Huei Chen’s works on the New World Records label, alongside renowned pipa player Wu Man and former Principal Cello of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Wen-Sinn Yang.

Also an active opera conductor, Wu served as Assistant Conductor of Shao-Chia Lü in a production of Puccini’s Tosca with the Taiwan Philharmonic in 2019, and guest conducted during their concert tour. In 2014, he conducted the Taiwan Opera Studio in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel which toured around Taiwan. In 2013, he worked with the Taipei National University of the Arts to perform Bellini’s La Sonnambula.

Wu is well-loved for his enthusiastic and engaging approach when sharing his musical insights and experience with the public and the younger generation. He has been invited to conduct a wide range of concerts and regularly works with college and university students in lectures and masterclasses.

Wu was selected as one of the “2013 People of the Year in Music” by the Performing Arts Reviewmagazine, and nominated as one of the “Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons” in Taiwan in 2014. In search of higher artistic value, he rejected most of his concert invitations in the 2017/18 season and chose to return to studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.