Jian Wang has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including, in recent and upcoming seasons, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Taiwan Symphony, and Orchestre National de Lyon. He frequently appears in Korea with Maestro Chung as both conductor and chamber musician. In China, Wang has performed with many prestigious ensembles such as the China Philharmonic, China National, and Hangzhou Symphony Orchestras. He was the first artist-in-residence for both the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing.
His past concerto engagements have included the Philharmonia, Orchestre de Paris, Zurich Tonhalle, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Stockholm Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland, Boston Symphony, NHK Symphony, and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras. Wang has performed at major international festivals, as both a soloist and chamber musician, amongst them Verbier (Switzerland), Miyazaki (Japan), Aldeburgh (UK), and Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart (USA). In 2008, he made his BBC Proms debut performing Bach’s solo Cello Suites.
Wang’s extensive discography with Deutsche Grammophon includes the Brahms Double Concerto with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, and Gil Shaham, as well as chamber music with Maria João Pires and Augustin Dumay. A recording of Strauss Don Quixote with the Orchestre National de Lyon and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider was released in 2024. His most recent disc is the complete Bach Cello Suites (inaugural release of DG China), twenty years after his first recording of these works on DG.
Jian Wang is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. While a student there, he was featured in the acclaimed documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Stern’s encouragement led him to studying at the Yale School of Music under Aldo Parisot. He plays a cello graciously loaned to him by the family of the late Sau-Wing Lam.
August 2025
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