Education
- PhD, Stanford University
- MMus, The Juilliard School
- BMus, Curtis Institute of Music
Biography
Sean Yung-Hsiang Wang is a native of Taiwan. American Record Guide has called him “a brilliant violinist” whose “quality [of] playing is exceedingly high.” His solo and chamber music performances have taken him across North America, Europe, and Asia. An advocate of contemporary intercultural music, he is Co-Artistic Director of NYC-based INTERWOVEN, which promotes new works that combine Western and Asian elements. On Baroque violin, he has made critically acclaimed recordings and performed as a concertmaster with Grammy-nominated Ars Lyrica Houston.
Prior to Toronto, he taught at the Longy School of Bard College (Director of Orchestra, Chair of Strings, violin), University of Connecticut (viola), University of Houston (violin), and Vanderbilt University (violin and music history). He has given violin master classes at major universities in North America and Asia, and has taught and performed at summer festivals in Italy, Denmark, Germany, France, and the USA.
On the podium, as the Longy School’s Director of Orchestra, he conducted symphonies, concertos, new compositions, and full opera productions. He has also led ensembles of the Juilliard School, Stanford University, and Cremona Academy in performance. As a music scholar, he has presented on topics ranging from Asian-American interculturalism to 19th-century performance practice at international conferences (e.g., College Music Society, American Musicological Society).
A full-scholarship student throughout his formative years, he studied at Curtis (B.M., Violin), Juilliard (M.M., Orchestral Conducting, as a Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship recipient), and Stanford (Joint Ph.D., Musicology and Humanities). His principal teachers were Rafael Druian (violin), Otto-Werner Mueller (conducting), Jacques-Louis Monod (theory), and William Mahrt (musicology).