Xiayin Wang

Pianist Xiayin Wang has an unusually broad repertory, ranging from <a href="spotify:artist:5aIqB5nVVvmFsvSdExz408">Bach</a> to the American serialist <a href="spotify:artist:5k6Bxi6gfjQPYRnNDvZgNi">George Perle</a>. She has been heard internationally as a recitalist and concerto soloist. Wang has a substantial recording catalog, much of it issued by the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Chandos%22">Chandos</a> label, including albums of virtuoso music by Rachmaninov and Earl Wild. In 2024, she issued recordings of piano concertos by Gerard Schurmann and Edward MacDowell.

Wang was born in Shanghai. Her father was an internationally famous player of the erhu, a Chinese two-stringed instrument. Wang took up the piano at age five and was groomed for success; her mother took notes at her piano lessons for further review at home. Wang enrolled at the Shanghai Conservatory, where she lived beginning at age ten, and she remained there through graduate-level studies. Winning major Chinese competitions, she moved to New York in 1997 for studies at the Manhattan School of Music, where she earned bachelor's, master's, professional studies, and doctoral degrees. Her principal teachers were Solomon Mikowsky and Nina Svetlanova. Wang won the school's Eisenberg Concerto Competition in 2002. She has continued to be based in New York. In 2007, she released her debut album, Introducing Xiayin Wang, on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Marquis+Records%22">Marquis Records</a> label.

Wang has had an international career as a recitalist, appearing at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Mozartsaal in Vienna, and venues in such rarely visited locations as Cuba and Costa Rica, as well as in her native China. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the symphony orchestras of <a href="spotify:artist:1w77QW6t2p7zrCEbgwk256">Baltimore</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4b1OFVRz9W1m6T5pFtwjGG">Houston</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:7oOCHAPJjD7IARb5hrzvw9">Pittsburgh</a>, as well as with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, and other groups outside the U.S. Wang is also a chamber musician who has recorded the Brahms piano quartets with the Amity Players for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Marquis%22">Marquis</a>. In 2010, she began an ongoing association with the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Chandos%22">Chandos</a> label, releasing the album The Piano Music of Earl Wild. Her recorded output has inclined toward virtuoso repertory, featuring albums of music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and Granados. In 2024, Wang released a pair of concerto recordings on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Chandos%22">Chandos</a>, featuring concertos by MacDowell and Gerard Schurmann, both with the <a href="spotify:artist:2os8ZaeBvYxyVgTKrHtnvK">BBC Philharmonic Orchestra</a>. ~ James Manheim, Rovi