William Pu
Violin
 A Chinese-American violinist, William Pu entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1978 at age of 11. Nine years later he left Shanghai for the United States to study with Fredell Lack and become her teaching assistant. Mr. Pu won the audition for the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1990 and was named by Christoph Eschenbach as Assistant Concertmaster, thus becoming the youngest Assistant Concertmaster in the history of Houston Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, Mr. Pu was invited by Music Director Robert Spano to become Associate Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, where holds the prestigious Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair. Since 2002, William Pu has performed as Concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Ravinia concerts in Chicago and other important tours and recordings. He has been featured as a soloist with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, and other orchestras around Europe and the United States. Mr. Pu
is also an active chamber music performer. He had performed with Arnold
Steinhardt, Cho-Liang Lin, James Dunham and Lynn Harrell, and has given
master classes at a number of Universities in the US. This is his third summer with AYO.
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