Zhu Wang

Zhu Wang, from Hunan Province, China, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2020 and studies piano with Robert McDonald. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Mr. Wang is the Anderson and Daria Pew Fellow. 

Winner of the 2020 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he was awarded the Stern Young Artist Development Award, supported by the Linda and Isaac Stern Charitable Foundation. Among his many other awards, Mr. Wang has been the first-prize winner of the Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians, Manhattan International Music Competition, Hilton Head International Young Artist Piano Competition, Music Academy of the West Solo Piano Competition, PianoTexas Concerto Competition, and Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer International Scholarship Piano Competition.  

Mr. Wang has performed at many prestigious venues including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Kammermusiksaal of the Berliner Philharmonie, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, and Shanghai Concert Hall. Since his orchestral debut at age fourteen with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, where he performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, he has soloed with Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Zermatt Festival Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Brunensis Virtuosi Orchestra, San Juan Symphony, and Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra. 

As an avid chamber musician and new music advocate, Mr. Wang has performed with Orion String Quartet, Ida Kavafian, Anne-Marie McDermott, Wu Han, and Colin Carr and has given concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Wang has world premiered Timo Andres’s Moving Études (2017) and Nina Shekhar’s Vocalise (2021). He has appeared in music festivals such as Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, Four Seasons Chamber Music Workshop, International Piano Academy Lake Como, Shanghai International Piano Festival, Perlman Music Program and Music Academy of the West. 

This season’s highlights include a solo recital debut in Germany at Usedomer Musikfestival, a concert at Morgan Library in New York City, a world premiere performance of Steven Banks’s work for solo piano, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and appearances with violinist Randall Goosby for the Vancouver Recital Society and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.  

Mr. Wang began learning piano at age five when he trained at the Music Middle School Affiliated with Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Zhe Tang and Fou Ts’ong. He continued his study at the Juilliard School for his Bachelor of Music degree, where he received the Gina Bachauer and Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship.