Xiayin Wang
Xiayin Wang, born in China, has recently released a recording of the piano music of Earl Wild, including his celebrated Gershwin arrangements, on Chandos. In November 2010, she performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the renowned Fine Arts Quartet receiving praising responses from the press.
Recently, Ms. Wang appeared in a solo recital at Alice Tully Hall, participated as soloist at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico, traveled to Vienna’s Mozart-Saal to perform Richard Danielpour’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 (2010) with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Philippe Entremont. Other engagements have taken her throughout the United States at such venues and locations as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, Tanglewood, the University of Miami, Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples Florida, Saratoga Arts Festival, Coastal Carolina Arts Festival, the Meyer Concert Series at The Smithsonian in D.C., and others.
Ms. Wang has also been heard on radio stations throughout the USA. She has recorded widely with artists such as Catherine Manoukian, Amity Players, Fine Arts Quartet and others. Xiayin Wang completed studies at the Shanghai Conservatory and garnered an enviable record of first prize awards and special honors for herperformances throughout China. She was heard with some of China’s leading orchestras and in many of the country’s most prestigious concert halls.
She came to New York in 1997 completed her studies at the Manhattan School of Music and winning the school’s Eisenberg Concerto Competition in 2002, as well as the Roy M. Rubinstein Award..