Praised by the New York Times as an “excellent young pianist”, Chelsea Wang has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in many venues across North America, Asia, and Europe, including the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, New York’s Merkin Hall, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, the Orford Music Festival in Orford, Quebec, the Salmagundi Club, the Ossining Library and Temple Emanuel, among others. She is a prizewinner and finalist of many national and international piano competitions: the 2017 Seoul International Piano competition (where she won the Special Prize), the 2017 Washington International Piano Competition, the 2012 New York International Piano Competition, 2012 Music Teachers National Association Yamaha Senior Competition, 2010 Eastman International Piano Competition and the 2009 Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition. She was also a recipient of the 2012 Schubert Club Scholarship.

Ms. Wang made her orchestral debut (when she was still unable to reach the pedals of the piano) at the age of six, playing the Haydn D Major Piano Concerto. She has performed with many orchestras since then, including the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New Orleans Civic Symphony, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra and the Fort Dodge Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2011, Ms. Wang was chosen to perform in an all-Beethoven concerto concert with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, performing the 2nd Piano Concerto under the baton of maestro Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Her festival appearances include the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival, Pianotexas Academy and Festival (formerly known as the Cliburn Institute), the Fontainebleau Music Festival in France, (where she won the ‘Prix de Piano’ festival prize), Music from Angel Fire, the Four Seasons Winter Workshop, the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival in Italy, the Banff Piano Masterclass and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Chelsea Wang has had the honor of working with many notable musicians and chamber groups, including Richard Goode, Gary Graffman, Robert McDonald, Seymour Lipkin, Arie Vardi, Aldo Ciccolini, John Perry, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Andre Watts, Dénes Várjon, Jonathan Biss, Leonidas Kavakos, eighth blackbird, the Emerson Quartet and with members of the former Tokyo String Quartet, among others. She has performed alongside Ida and Ani Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, Peter Wiley, Roberto Diaz, Anne-Marie McDermott, Anton Nel, Hsin-Yun Huang and Jose Franch-Ballester, along with many other inspirational mentors.

She has been featured on many radio shows, including NPR’s “From the Top” hosted by Christopher O’Riley and “What Makes It Great” with host Rob Kapilow, along with programs on Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New York’s WQXR, and Philadelphia’s WHYY Public Radios.

A native of West Des Moines, Iowa, Chelsea started learning piano at the age of four and violin at age seven. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA, where she studied with Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Meng-Chieh Liu and was awarded the Sergei Rachmaninoff Award upon graduation. At Curtis, she held a full-tuition scholarship (The William A. Horn M.D. Fellowship). Chelsea recently completed her Master of Music degree at the Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Leon Fleisher. Her previous instructors have included Ksenia Nosikova, Chiu-Ling Lin, and Damarez Alvarez.

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