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Nancy Wu has served as Associate Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1989. As concertmaster, she has led performances with James Levine, Simon Rattle, Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev, Fabio Luisi, and Gianandrea Noseda, and has performed with the MET Chamber Ensemble, at the Verbier Festival, and the Fondation Pierre Giannada. Ms. Wu has been a coach for the Verbier Festival Orchestra since its founding in 2000. She is an exclusive artist for Thomastik-Infeld Strings. A Fulbright grant recipient, Ms. Wu graduated with honors from both Stanford University and the Vienna Hochschule für Musik, and lives in Pleasantville, New York, with her husband, Met Orchestra Associate Principal Double Bass Leigh Mesh, and their two children.