Chelsea Wang, Pianist

Chelsea Wang, praised by The New York Times as an “excellent young pianist,” is an award-winning soloist, chamber musician, and educator who has performed widely across North America, Europe, and Asia. Her appearances have taken her to leading venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection, Koerner Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Taipei National Concert Hall, the Weiwuying Center for the Arts, and Hong Kong City Hall. A prizewinner and finalist in numerous national and international competitions, she has been recognized with special awards at the Seoul International Piano Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition, and the New York International Piano Competition.o Competition.

Ms. Wang made her orchestral debut at the age of six and has since performed with ensembles such as the Fort Worth Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New Orleans Civic Symphony, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, and Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, among others. She has appeared at major festivals including Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Institute, Bravo! Vail, Tippet Rise, Music Academy of the West, Orford, PianoTexas, Fontainebleau, Music from Angel Fire, Four Seasons, Banff, Amalfi Coast, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

A dedicated chamber musician, Ms. Wang has performed as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Manhattan Chamber Players, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Hong Kong Intimacy of Creativity, and the Samos Young Artist Festival. She has collaborated with leading artists such as David Shifrin, Ida Kavafian, Ani Kavafian, Anne-Marie McDermott, David Finckel, Roberto Díaz, Paul Neubauer, Peter Wiley, and Bright Sheng. Her performances have been broadcast on NPR’s From the Top, WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago), WHYY (Philadelphia), WSMR (Sarasota), and other regional stations, as well as on Rob Kapilow’s What Makes It Great. As a passionate and enthusiastic educator, Ms. Wang serves on the faculty of the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Institute’s Young Performers Program and has led numerous interactive performances in schools and community venues throughout New York City and across the United States. She is an alumna of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect.

A native of West Des Moines, Iowa, Ms. Wang began piano studies at age four with Chiu-Ling Lin and Ksenia Nosikova. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Meng-Chieh Liu and Ignat Solzhenitsyn, where she received the Sergei Rachmaninoff Award upon graduation. She holds a Master of Music degree and Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory, studying with Leon Fleisher and Yong-Hi Moon, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts at Northwestern University with James Giles. Ms. Wang is based in New York City.