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By the age of thirteen, violinist Sheng-Tsung Wang had already given his highly acclaimed solo début performing with the Bremen Symphony Orchestra of Germany. Of the concert Die Nord Deutsche marveled that Mr. Wang "performed the difficult passages with astonishing understanding, as well as interpreting the lyric qualities with sweetness, bravura, and inspired tone."
A recipient of many awards and honors, Mr. Wang was recently selected to be the resident violinist of the 1999 & 2000 La Gesse Music Festival in France and Italy. In addition to being awarded a top Peabody Conservatory merit scholarship, Mr. Wang captured first prize in Peabody's 1997 Marbury Violin Competition. While at the Conservatory, Mr. Wang enjoyed the post as concertmaster for both the Peabody Symphony and Concert Orchestras, culminating in Peabody Symphony's New York City début to a standing ovation in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in 1998. Mr. Wang has also served as concertmaster for the Columbia Camerata Musica, four consecutive years as concertmaster for the Maryland All State Orchestras, as well as the 1993 All Eastern Honors Orchestra. In 1992, he received the Maryland Distinguished Scholar Talent Award, and performed for Governor William Donald Schaefer.
Sheng-Tsung Wang has collaborated frequently with artists such as Earl Carlyss, Thomas Kraines, and the late Stephen Kates. He has been heard most recently in performances at the Austrian Embassy, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, as concertmaster of the North American Elite Orchestra, Shriver Hall, the Taiwanese Consulate, Virginia's "Monticello", and the French Embassy, of which the Washington Post admired "Wang's delicate phrasing and nuances." Mr. Wang presented his Carnegie Hall début in 1999 with three evenings of solo and chamber performances under the auspices of the La Gesse Foundation, and returned in 2000 with the United States premiere of Peabody Director Robert Sirota's "Summermusic" for violin and piano.
Mr. Wang received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he was a student of Victor Danchenko. Previous teachers have included Elaine Mishkind, Eugene Drucker of the Emerson String Quartet, the late Mark Ulrich, and Ik-Hwan Bae. He has spent summers at the Quartet Program, Yellow Barn Music Festival, La Jolla SummerFest, and Taos School of Music, having worked with the late Alexander Schneider, Robert McDonald, Charles Castleman, Heifetz-pupil Beverly Somach, and members of the Brentano, Chicago, and Lark String Quartets. Mr. Wang serves on the music faculty of Howard Community College and has taught at the Peabody Conservatory, Preparatory Division.
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