biography

Jing Wang (b.1992) is a composer and new music improviser. Her composition includes chamber music, orchestra and stage works in a variety of themes, such as Time, Space, Nature, Game, Kung-Fu, etc. Her work "Free fireflies" has achieved the Honorable Mention of 2012 BICW New Music Award, and it has been premiered by E-MEX Ensemble. Since then, her music started to be performed in China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Austria, the US, Canada, Slovenia, Thailand, etc. She has participated in numerous music festivals in Europe and Asia, and worked closely with Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale, Ensemble Traversée, Toolbox Percussion, TACETI Ensemble, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, etc.

In the aspect of improvisation, Wang has performed new music as a pianist with improvisers and sound artists in Germany, Italy, Greece and Canada. She has also conducted salons of new music and improvisation in China.

Wang earned her bachelor’s degree in composition from Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she studied with Guo-ping Jia, Xin-min Luo, and Jian-ping Tang. She subsequently obtained her master’s degree in composition from Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany under Johannes Schöllhorn. She's currently pursuing her PhD in composition at the University of Hong Kong under Hing-yan CHAN.