Who’s Wu?

Yuja Wang’s tour in China this month is organised by the Wu Promotion company, who appear to have a monopoly on incoming music tours.

They have also looked after visits by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, Alice Sara Ott, the Dresden Stattskapelle and more. They are especially close to Valery Gergiev, whose Mariinsky Theatre is establishing an ever-larger footprint in China.

Wu Promotion was founded in 1991 by Zezhou Wu and Jiatong Wu, who remains president of the company. They have opened a branch in Vienna, have joined the IMZ International Music + Media Centre and have received a state honour, the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art.

Watch out for their next international base.