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Mingzhe Wang
clarinet
Assistant
Professor of Music
 Minghze
Wang,
native of Wuhan, China, first studied at the age of 9. First
public performance at the age of 10 and at the age of 11 was
admitted to the Wuhan Conservatory before being subsequently
accepted into the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In
1997, Mr. Wang came to the US to study at the Harid Conservatory
of Music at Lynn University, and graduated Magna Cum Laude in
2001. He is a prize winner of the National Society of Arts and
Letters Woodwind Competition in 1999, Orchestral Instrument
Competition in 2001, and winner of the Yale Woolsey Hall
Concerto Competition. Mr. Wang is committed to promote both the
music of our time and the classics. He gave the Chinese Premiere
of Elliott Carter’s
Hiyoku
and has worked closely with composers such as Ezra Laderman,
Martin Bresnick, Krzystof Penderecki, and Aaron Jay Kernis. In
addition he has performed on period clarinets with prominent
groups such as The American Classical Orchestra and the Clarion
Music Society Orchestra. Mr. Wang's performances have been
featured in China’s Central Television and New York’s WQXR. He
is currently a candidate of the Doctor of Musical Arts of the
Yale School of Music. Before coming to Austin Peay, Mr. Wang has
taught clarinet to Yale Undergraduate students and served on the
faculty at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven,
Connecticut.
Email: WangM@apsu.edu
Phone: (931)221-7631
Music/Mass Communication Building, Room 222
www.mingzhewang.com |
