Mrs. Warner is a graduate of Curtis Institute of Music where she met Mstislav Rostropovich. An accomplished pianist as well, she has studied with Emilio del Rosario at The Music Center.
She was brought to the attention of the world stage when in 1990 she was awarded First Prize in the Fourth International Rostropovich Competition in Paris. Ms. Warner made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich in 1990 playing the Shostakovich Concerto No 1. Immediately following she was reengaged to appear with them on a North American tour (1991). She was also the featured soloist on the 1991 European tour of the Bamberg Symphony, again conducted by Rostropovich, making her debuts in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Köln, Düsseldorf and Berlin.
In 1991, she was awarded a prestigious Avery Fischer Career grant and debuted at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Recent seasons have seen highly successful performances with many of the world's finest orchestras and conductors. These have included the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the National Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In Europe and around the world she has performed with the London Symphony (Barbican Center, London), the Berlin Symphony (Philharmonie Hall, Berlin), the Moscow Virtuosi (Carnegie Hall, New York), the Hong Kong Philharmonic (Hong Kong), the French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Salle Pleyel, Paris), the Iceland Symphony (Reykjavik), and L'Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (Toulouse).
In the past two years three CDs have been released featuring Wendy Warner. The first on Bridge Records with works for cello by Hindemith, the second featuring duos for cello and violin (with Rachel Barton) on Cedille Records and just recently the critics praised her recording of the Barber Concerto with Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Naxos Records.