Dr. Amao WANG
Lecturer
Dr. Amao WANG, a contemporary classical music composer, is a faculty member at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. WANG's works have been presented at prestigious events and venues, including the 23rd Underwood New Music Readings, Aspen Music Festival, Juilliard's Focus Festival, the Banff Centre, the NCPA Young Composers Project, Mizzou International Music Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Korean National Gugak Center, the Intimacy of Creativity, and Thailand International Music Festival. She has collaborated with the American Composers Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra, China National Opera Symphony Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, Music from China, among others.
Since 2016, WANG has taught composition and orchestration at Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China. She has received numerous awards, grants, and commissions in Asia and America. She was a recipient of the China National Arts Fund in 2018 and was selected by the China Symphony Orchestra to participate in their Young Composers Project. Her pipa solo work, To the Revered Blades Man, won the first prize of the Dunhuang Pipa New Composition Competition. Recently, she received commissions from the 6th Chinese Woodwind Instruments Week held by the Central Conservatory of Music, Guangdong Chinese Orchestra, and many Chinese instrumental virtuosi. WANG has performed her own chamber works at Le Poisson Rouge in New York, Hong Kong City Hall Theatre, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and many Chinese music institutes. She has also played her own piano solo work at the Edgar Snow Memorial Fund Symposium and the National Association of Schools of Music concert series.
From 2010 to 2016, she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) and Master of Music (MM) in Composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. During her studies there, she studied composition with Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, and Paul Rudy. Prior to her studies in the US, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she studied under the guidance of Dr. Tang Jianping.
