2025 Aeolian Classics Emerging Artist Series Winner Recital

Introducing Yuan Wang, winner of the 2025 Aeolian Classics Emerging Artist Award

Program:

Beethoven Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 81a “Les Adieux”

Beethoven Sonata in E Major, Op. 109

Scriabin Sonata Piano No. 9, Op. 68

Berio Feuerklavier

Albeniz Eritana from Iberia

Ravel Gaspard de la unit

Biography

As a late protégé of the well-known Chinese Composer/Pianist Jianzhong Wang, Yuan Wang started learning piano with him at Age of 5. Yuan is a graduate with high honors and scholarship from Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Qi Zhang and Shanshan Jin. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Music Degree at the CCPA of Roosevelt University under the tutelage of Prof.Winston Choi, Prof.Michal Drewnowski and Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Alexandre Moutouzkine, while also taking private lessons with distinguished pianist Jeffrey Biegel and Vladimir Viardo.

As an aspiring young classical pianist, Yuan has achieved remarkable results at major competitions, both domestically and internationally, including:

• Laureate of the 2025 Aeolian Classics Emerging Artist Award, Chicago

• 1st Prize, 32nd Annual international Chopin piano competition by Fryderyk Chopin Society of Texas 2024

• 1st Prize, V Future Stars International Competition Hartford 2019

• 2nd Prize, Chopin International Piano Competition Hartford 2019

• 1st Prize, Asian Music Competition Taiwan 2015

• 2nd Prize, William Knabe Piano Institute Thomas F. Hulbert International Piano Competition, Maryland 2023

• 4th place, Chopin International Piano Competition, Valldemosa, Spain 2017

• Semifinalist, Bartok World Competition (part of WFIMC), Budapest, Hungry 2019

Recent highlights include recital debuts in Carnegie Hall, New York; Chopin's Former Residence, Valldemosa, Majorca, Spain; Appearance performance in Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary; Chamber music performance in Paderewski Symphony Orchestra Music Academy, Chicago and Ganz Hall, Chicago; Auer Hall, Bloomington, Indiana and Seoul National University. Nanjing Culture and Art Center, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai Helvting Concert Hall, Shanghai Opera House, Guangzhou Opera House. 

Yuan Wang is a contracted concert pianist of AC Orange, a performing arts company of national renown based in Shenzhen. Under their auspices, he had conducted countrywide tours of China, covering many provinces such as Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Anhui, Guangdong and Fujian. Yuan has had the honor to study and play with many influential pianists, including Lang Lang, Meng Chieh Liu, Solomon Mikowsky, Matti Raekallio, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Vladimir Viardo, Ilja Scheps, Yilun Huang.