Serena Wang

Serena Wang, from San Francisco, California, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2024 and studies piano with Robert McDonald. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full tuition scholarships, and Ms. Wang is the Dr. Samuel R. and Mrs. Beatrice S. Rossman Fellow.

Ms. Wang began piano studies at age four, and her formal training began at age six with the eminent teacher, Zhaoyi Dan. She continued her studies under the guidance of Meng-Chieh Liu and Yoheved Kaplinsky and pursued her undergraduate studies at the Juilliard School with Robert McDonald.

Ms. Wang has performed with a number of major orchestras and conductors throughout China and the United States. Concert appearances include appearances with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In recent seasons, Ms. Wang has appeared with the New York Philharmonic as part of their 2024 Lunar New Year celebration concert. She was invited back to the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to play Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1 in 2023 and Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Christoph Eschenbach in 2024. She was reinvited to the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra to play Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Ms. Wang made her first recording with Channel Classics at the age of nine, featuring works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Tan Dun. She is an avid chamber musician and loves to perform with vocalists.