WU,Wei, Sheng Virtuose, was born in China and studied the sheng (Chinese mouth organ) at the Shanghai Music Conservatory. In 1995 he became a DAAD scholarship and studied at the Hans Eisler Music Academy in Berlin, where he is now based. Since 2013 he is Professor at Shanghai Music Conservatory. As a sheng soloist, he has helped to develop the ancient instrument into an innovative force in contemporary music, through the creation of new techniques, the expansion of its repertoire and through integrating different styles and genres.

In addition to many prestigious national and international competitions for traditional Chinese music, he won the “Musica Vitale Competition Germany” in 1996 and 2002, and the “Global Root” German world music prize in 2004. In 2011 he won the Herald Angels Award by Edinburgh International Festival. In 2015, the CD “Unsuk Chin’s 3 Concertos”, which he has recorded one Sheng Concerto by German Gramophone with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Myung-Whun Chung, won the “International Classical Music Award 2015“ and “BBC Music Magazine Award 2015 ”.