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Yu-Wei's Story...
Yu-Wei Hu is in her first year of the Artist Diploma in Performance following the successful completion of her MMus.
“It’s fantastic studying in the Historical Performance department at the Royal College of Music. We are fortunate in being able to receive instrumental lessons and chamber music coaching from the best early music performers in Europe. RCM students are free to be coached by any professor in the department, which gives you a great opportunity to learn from different opinions and points of view. You can also sign up for public chamber music coaching sessions with Florilegium, the RCM Ensemble in Association.
The RCM is a warm and friendly environment to meet other players and make useful contacts. I was fortunate to make two of my closest friends here, with whom I co-founded the ensemble Les Nations Reunies, and won First Prize at the International Early Music Competition at Middelburg in the Netherlands. Following our win, we were offered two fantastic performance opportunities – to perform on Austrian Ö2 Radio Live and at the Bach Week Festival in Vienna.
Besides numerous concerts at the RCM, I have been given the chance to perform at other venues in London and beyond, including St Martin-in-the-Fields, Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands, Finchcocks and at the Early Music Festival in Sandwich. My ensembles have also performed in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall and at The National Gallery.
A particular highlight of my time at the RCM has to be being conducted by Sir Roger Norrington with the RCM Baroque Orchestra in London and France. All these concerts and projects provide you with such wonderful opportunities to develop as a recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician.”
