Biography
Praised by the New York Times for her “consistent, strong” and “smooth and full” horn playing, Wei-Ping is the second horn of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra/Washington National Opera Orchestra. A native of Taoyuan, Taiwan, she began playing the horn at the age of nine and continued her studies at the Idyllwild Arts Academy under Kurt Snyder. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Jerome Ashby, and her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Julie Landsman. She is the first horn player in Juilliard School history to be awarded the Artist Diploma.
Wei-Ping held the fourth horn position in the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra/Washington National Opera Orchestra from 2014 through 2017, and was acting assistant principal horn for the San Diego Symphony from 2007 to 2011. She has performed with a variety of orchestras and chamber groups, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Symphony Orchestra, Knights, Wind Soloists of New York, and Genghis Barbie. An accomplished chamber musician, she has spent many summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and has performed on “Musicians from Marlboro” tours. She has appeared as a guest artist at the Chesapeake Music Festival, Mt. Desert Festival of Chamber Music, Artosphere Music Festival, and Lake Champlain Music Festival. Wei-Ping was featured as a soloist, performing the Gliere Concerto, with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra.
An avid educator, Wei-Ping has been on the horn faculty of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University since 2018. In the summers, she has taught on the horn faculty at Rafael Méndez Brass Institute since 2025 as a member of Summit Brass, and has also regularly taught at National Youth Orchestra 2 and the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute.
When not playing the horn, Wei-Ping enjoys cooking, baking, crafting, and last but definitely not least, flying trapeze! Most recently, she has also upgraded to become a mom of two daughters.
SPECIALTIES:
Audition prep
Performance anxiety
Section playing
LANGUAGES:
English, Chinese
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