Jian Wang
Biography Jian Wang
Jian Wang
While a student at the Shanghai Conservatoire Jian Wang was featured in the celebrated documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Mr Stern’s encouragement and support paved the way for him to go to the United States and in 1985 he entered the Yale School of Music under a special programme where he studied with the renowned cellist Aldo Parisot.
Jian’s first professional engagement was in 1986, at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Since then he has embarked on an international career, early highlights including concerts with the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra/Claudio Abbado and with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly. He has also performed with many of the world’s other leading orchestras including the London Symphony, Cleveland, Zurich Tonhalle, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Stockholm Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Orchestre de Paris and NHK Symphony.
Jian Wang’s recent and future highlights include concerts with the Philharmonia, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, NHK Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Singapore and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. These concerts have been with many of the greatest conductors, such as Myung-Whun Chung, Dausgaard, Dudamel, Elder, Eschenbach, Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Neeme Järvi, Louis Langrée, van Zweden, Mark Wigglesworth and Szeps-Znaider.
Amongst his many high-profile concerts in China, he has opened the season for the China Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony and Macau Symphony orchestras as well as performing with the China National Orchestra and Hangzhou Symphony. Jian was the first ever Artist-in-Residence for both the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing; the latter included his performance of the complete Bach Cello Suites.
He has an extensive discography with DGG, including the Bach Cello Suites and the Brahms Double Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado and Gil Shaham and chamber music with Maria João Pires and Augustin Dumay.
Jian is a Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. His instrument is graciously loaned to him by the family of the late Mr. Sau-Wing Lam.
