Wen-Hui Tu was born in Taipeh, Taiwan, in 1964. She showed musical talent quite early which was directed to the piano by her mother. Aged 6 she attended a private music school, where she was given a classical European kind of musical training. At the early age of 7 she began to write her first piano compositions, at first for two and later also for four hands, and performed these pieces together with her sister. Between 1979 and 1984 Wen-Hui Tu studied composition (with professors Yen Lui and Chan-Fa Yiu) and viola at the Taiwan National Academy of Arts, and completed her studies by writing an awardwinning violin concerto. In the same year she continued her composition studies with professor Francis Burt, one of Boris Blacher students, at the academy of music and performing arts in Vienna. In 1989 she passed the composer diploma with distinction, was honored for it with an award by the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research, and was granted the academic title of a Master of Arts in 1991.
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