吴秀云，1970年考入天津音乐学院，主修大提琴专业。1974年加入中国共产党，1975年毕业留校任教。现任天津音乐学院管弦系大提琴专业教授，硕士生导师，中国大提琴音协大提琴学会理事，天津大提琴专业委员会常务副会长。曾任管弦系副主任、天津音乐学院附中校长等职务。
执教41年，所授多名学生曾获得国家、省市级专业比赛与优秀学生等奖项。多名毕业生现就职于中国交响乐团、国家大剧院、中国歌剧院、北京交响乐团、上海交响乐团、天津歌舞剧院等国家、省市级院团及大专院校。部分毕业生考取法国、德国、澳大利亚、美国、加拿大等国家音乐学院，获取了硕士、博士学位。曾出访新加坡、法国、德国、义大利进行演出与专业学术交流活动。应邀出任“2010年第四届大提琴爱琴杯”全国大赛评委。2015年5月，应邀主持香港“第二届国际音乐节”天津赛区预选赛工作。2012年6月，应邀在天津图书馆音乐大讲堂进行专题讲座。2014年6月应邀赴牡丹江大学艺术学院进行讲学。2016年6月，组织了2016首届“晨曦杯”天津大提琴公开赛。
先后在《人民音乐》、《艺术教育》、天津音乐学院学报《天籁》等国家核心学术期刊上发表论文18篇，2006年在中央音乐学院出版社出版了个人学术专著《大提琴技法的演进与训练》。2008年，在新浪网创办了以“琴思”http://blog.sina.com.cn/tjwuxiuyun 为题的大提琴专栏博客，为宣传、普及、分享大提琴演奏理念、教学心得、资料资讯等内容，开闢了更为广阔的媒体教学交流空间。
先后荣获天津教委工委先进教师、天津市“九五”立功奖章、“天津市优秀教师”、 “第二届中国素质教育教研成果一等奖”，“中国素质教育先进工作者”等奖项。
Wu Xiuyun was admitted to Tianjin Conservatory of Music in 1970, majoring in Cello. In 1974 she joined the Communist Party of China, and in 1975 she graduated and became a teacher in TJCM. At present she is a cello professor, master’s tutor of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, director of the Cello Academy of Chinese Musicians’ Association, as well as the executive president of Tianjin Cello Committee. Previously she also served as the deputy director of Orchestra Department of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, headmaster of the Affiliated High School of Tianjin Conservatory of Music among other duties.
Among her 41 years of teaching, many of her students have received awards in municipal, provincial, and national competitions or won outstanding student awards. A number of her graduates are now working in China Symphony Orchestra, National Center for the Performing Arts, Chinese Opera House, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Tianjin Song and Dance Theater, and other municipal, provincial, and national performing bodies or institutions. Some of her students are admitted to Conservatories in France, Germany, Australia, the United States, Canada and other countries, and have obtained master’s and doctorate degrees. Wu has visited Singapore, France, Germany, Italy for performance or academic exchanges. She has judged in “the Fourth Aegean Cup” Notational Cello Contest in 2010. In May 2015, she was invited to host the preliminary contest in Tianjin for The Second International Music Festival of Hong Kong. In June 2012, she was invited to give lectures in the Library of Tianjin. In June 2014 she was invited to visit the Art College of Mudanjiang University and gave lectures. In June 2016, she organized the First Morning Cup Cello Competition in Tianjin.
She has published 18 articles in periodicals including People’s Music, Art Education, Journal of Tianjin Conservatory of Music and other core journal. In 2006 she published her monograph The Evolution and Training of Cello Techniques in Central Conservatory of Music’s Publishing House. In 2008, she established her own blog Qin-si (http://blog.sina.com.cn/tjwuxiuyun) aiming at the popularization and sharing information of performance concept and teaching experience of cello, which has opened up a broader media for teaching and exchange.
During these years of teaching, Wu has won “Excellent Teacher Award” granted by Tianjin Education Committee, “the Ninth Five-Year Plan” Medal of Tianjin, the title of “Excellent Teacher of Tianjin”, the first prize of “The Second Quality Education Teaching and Research Achievements in China” as well as Advanced Worker Award of “Quality Education of China”.
ral School Foundation Fellowship and in 2013, he was honored as a recipient of the FRSM Fellowship of the Royal Schools of Mus.ic.
