ANDREW GU

Andrew Gu has been tremendously passionate about classical music from a very young age and started studying piano at the age of 4 with Dr. Lam. Under Dr. Lam’s tutelage, Andrew won several piano competitions including first prize at the International Young Artist Piano Competition, first place in the Greater Princeton Steinway Society Piano Scholarship Competition, first place in the New Jersey Music Teachers Association (NJMTA) Young Musician Competition and more. He is currently a student at the Juilliard School Pre-College and has been studying with Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone since 2019.

Andrew is a scholarship recipient of the Chopin Foundation, National YoungArts Foundation and NPR’s From The Top as well as one of twelve 2022-2024 Lang Lang International Music Foundation Young Scholars. He has also given performances at many renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and Juilliard’s Paul Hall.

Andrew truly loves to share music with others and through intensive studies, he has not only excelled in competitions, but also been an active volunteer in his community. As President of the Basking Ridge Branch of the Alliance of Youth Leaders in the United States (AYLUS), Andrew and his fellow members organize monthly music performances at local senior centers and raise funds for national humanitarian crises.

Mr. Gu, a junior in high school, has a very curious mind and is actively involved in a variety of extracurriculars ranging from debating at Model United Nations conferences to reading classical literature in Latin Club. In his free time, Andrew is an avid skier, tackling challenging slopes all across the nation.