Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma presents:
 

Sean Wang

Sean Y. Wang, violinist, has a wide-ranging repertoire that covers works from the common-practice, contemporary, and pre-classical eras. As a recitalist and chamber musician of canonical works, he has performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall, as well as the OK Mozart International Festival in Oklahoma, Thy Chamber Music Festival in Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, and Evian Festival in France; he has also appeared as a featured musician on the National Public Television of Taiwan, and has been heard on WGBH in Boston and WFLN in Philadelphia. From 1996 to 1998 he was violinist-in-residence of the Guild of Composers, Inc. in New York City, in which capacity he premiered numerous contemporary compositions, including those by Noel Zahler and James Walsh, and gave his New York City debut recital with an all-twentieth-century program consisting of compositions by Davidovsky, Ives, Bartok, and Debussy. Mr. Wang has also performed works of Biber, C.P.E. Bach, Telemann, and other pre-classical composers on baroque violin at prominent venues in California, including MusicSources Center for Historically Informed Performances, Inc., Stanford University, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival.

A native of Taiwan, Mr. Wang won first prize of Taiwan's National Violin Competition at age 13, and subsequently came to the United States to pursue further studies with a recommendation from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. His principal teachers have included Sylvia Lee, Kathy Judd, Lynn Chang, Rafael Druian, and Sylvia Rosenberg. He has served as concertmaster of orchestras of the Manhattan School of Music and New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and holds a Bachelor of Music in violin from the Curtis Institute of Music.

Mr. Wang is also a music scholar currently completing a joint Ph.D. in musicology and humanities at Stanford University, with a dissertation on the reflections of linear time in the music of Brahms. Mr. Wang has presented papers at several regional and international conferences, and outside the academic setting, he has served as reviewer for the San Francisco Classical Voice, and has written CD liner notes for Altus Music in Japan and Green House Music in Germany. He has taught college-level music history and theory at Stanford University, with topics ranging from analysis of modal music to complex nineteenth-century musical forms. Currently he teaches music history at Vanderbilt University.

In addition, Mr. Wang holds a Master of Music in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School as a student of Otto-Werner Mueller and recipient of the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship. He has led the Juilliard Lab Orchestra, Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Summer Orchestra, and Stanford Savoyards in symphonic performances and opera productions, including concerts at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center.