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"Terrific pianist!" ~ Ruggiero Ricci "Wang strokes and strikes the keyboard pristinely and with elegance." ~ Herald Times |
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Praised by The Herald Times as a pianist who “strokes and strikes the keyboard pristinely and with elegance” Taiwanese Liang-yu Wang has performed in major concert halls across four continents. Currently based in the United States, Ms. Wang is an enthusiastic chamber musician. She has been featured as guest artist with notable chamber music organizations including performances at the Morgan Library & Museum, Red Rocks Music Festival, the Banff Centre, Schlern International Music Festival, and Académie Musicale Internationale “Barbara Krakauer”. Her debut CD with cellist Thomas Landschoot, “Balabille: Cello Sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc & Chopin” (ArchiMusic) was nominated as “The Best Classical Music Album” by the Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan. Ms. Wang has served as Visiting Assistant Professor (Collaborative Piano/String) at the Indiana University-Bloomington and is currently on faculty at Western Illinois University School of Music where she has served as both the artistic coordinator and the featured artist of the WIU Beethoven Festival performing Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano as well as his complete sonatas for violin and piano. Ms. Wang has worked closely with renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw, the artistic director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard as well as violinist Ruggiero Ricci who has enthusiastically endorses her as “A terrific pianist.”
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Praised by The Herald Times as a pianist who “strokes and strikes the keyboard pristinely and with elegance” Taiwanese Liang-yu Wang has performed in major concert halls across four continents as well as several unconventional performance venues such as the Woodbourne Correctional Facility, NY. In the summer of 2016, Ms. Wang was featured as an artist in residence at Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, France.
Now based in the United States, Ms. Wang is an enthusiastic chamber musician. She has been featured as guest artist with notable chamber music organizations, including The First Song Series at the Morgan Library & Museum, Lev Aronson Legacy Festival, Sonoran Chamber Music Series, Red Rocks Music Festival, Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival, Burlington Lunchtime Chamber Music Series, Resonant Bodies Festival at Banff Centre, and Downtown Chamber Series. Other festival appearances include Music Academy of the West, Banff Arts Centre, Schlern International Music Festival, and Académie Musicale Internationale “Barbara Krakauer”. In December 2011, Ms. Wang and Thomas Landschoot released their debut CD “Balabille: Cello Sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc & Chopin” on ArchiMusic, which was nominated by the Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan as “The Best Classical Music Album” of the year. Her newest recordings with violinist Katherine Wolfe on works by Stravinsky, Poulenc, Messiaen, Korngold, and with cellist Thomas Landschoot on Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano will be published in the near future. In addition to her expertise in classical chamber music repertoire, Ms. Wang is also an enthusiastic advocate of music by living composers. She has premiered several new music works for both piano solo and chamber music, and has been featured frequently on WIU New Music Festival. In 2015, the celebrated Belgian composer Frank Nuyts wrote his 19th piano sonata for her. Ms. Wang gave its world premiere in Paris in summer 2016, and recently recorded it for the Belgian label “HardScore” After serving as Visiting Assistant Professor (Collaborative Piano/String) at the Indiana University-Bloomington, Ms. Wang is currently on faculty at Western Illinois University School of Music where she has served as both the artistic coordinator and the featured artist of the WIU Beethoven Festival performing Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano as well as his complete sonatas for violin and piano. Ms. Wang holds a Diploma in Piano Performance from Indiana University-Bloomington, and received her M.M. and D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from the Arizona State University. She was on staff with the Eastern Music Festival and the Banff Arts Centre in the past summers and was a recipient of the Collaborative Piano Fellowship from the Bard Conservatory of Music, where she worked closely with renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw, the artistic director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard. |