Grace YU, a music theorist, pianist, conductor, and performing arts curator, is currently a faculty at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She was born and grew up in Hong Kong SAR, China.

As a music theorist and researcher, she has given numerous paper presentations and recitals on Liszt, music significations and interpretations, music practice research, and performing arts education­­­ at numerous international music conferences, including the International Congress of Music Theory and Analysis, International Congress of Music Signification, World Congress of Semiotics, International Symposium on Practice-As-Research, European Music Analysis Conference, International Liszt Bicentennial Conference, Canadian University Music Society, West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, Indiana University Graduate Theory Symposium and Innovation in Performing Arts Education Symposium. She has also given numerous Chinese Orchestral Music Analytical Seminars at the International Chinese Orchestra Conducting Masterclasses hosted by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. 

YU has extensive experience teaching undergraduate classes and graduate seminars on music theory and techniques, form and analysis, historical stylistic survey, music repertory, and literature, as well as performance research and interpretation. She was the Postgraduate Programme Leader of the School of Music and the Associate Professor of the Department of Academic Studies in Music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She has guided and supervised numerous Capstone Music Research projects and theses of undergraduate and postgraduate students respectively. At Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she completed her Ph.D. in music theory and MM in piano performance, she taught both aural and written music theory to graduate and undergraduate students as an associate instructor. She also received a BA (Hons) in music with a double major specialization in piano performance and composition from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

YU showcases her musical talents as both a pianist and conductor. She was the collaborative pianist in the opener concert of the No Limit Series at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2023. She served as the orchestral pianist for the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic in the United States. She conducted J.S. Bach's Passover Cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 as she curated the performance for crossover with Chinese paintings by Lingnan painting master Wong Chim Yuen in April 2023. She has also led orchestras such as the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic, the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, the Conductors Institute of South Carolina in the US, and the Hong Kong Children's Symphony Orchestra to perform extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia. She also taught conducting practicum previously for the MA program at the Hong Kong Baptist University. 

In recent years, YU has also actively engaged as a producer, creative director, artist-teacher, performer, conductor, and composer in multimedia music productions, e.g., Victory in Adversity, Sprout, Hope in Lamentations, Traverse, Splendour, and In Search of Space in a Cramped City, etc. 

YU has received numerous honors and scholarships in the past. Notably, she has been honored with the Pi Kappa Lambda distinction by the National Music Honors Society in the USA, and she was the past recipient of the Bernard van Zuiden Music Scholarship from the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society and the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship.