Guang Wang
Mr. Wang has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He has performed in the world's major concert halls in Paris, London, Vancouver, New York, Mexico City, Shanghai and Tokyo. His performance has been heard on many of the nation's prominent classical radio broadcasts, including NPR’s Performance Today (USA), the National Radio of China, Shanghai TV, Radio France, and France Musiques. He has collaborated with some of the world’s finest musicians including William Preucil, Sarah Chang, Richard Stoltzman, Robert McDuffie, and Eliot Fisk.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Wang is a founding member of the Vega String Quartet. The quartet has won top prizes of many national and international chamber music competitions. They have also participated in the most respected European master class with the members of Amadeus String Quartet at Royal Academy of Music in London, UK, and were selected to participate in Isaac Stern’s Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall, New York City.
A native of Shenyang, P. R. China, Mr. Wang began to study the cello at the age of eight, and gave his first public performance when he was ten years old. He holds a master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York, a Professional Diploma from Harid Conservatory of Music in Florida, and a bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Mr. Wang, with the Vega String Quartet, is currently Artist in Residence at Emory University, and continues to perform as soloist and chamber musician. He also focuses on his activities as a teacher of fine young cello students, and young chamber groups.
