Born in China, Tianyi Wang is an award-winning composer, conductor, and pianist, whose music vocabulary is diverse and much inspired by subjects beyond music. Tianyi’s repertoire spans over solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, electronic, as well as film scoring, his works have been performed both nationally and internationally, including Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), impuls Festival (Austria), Festival Mixtur (spain), CEME (Israel), iNEnesemble (Russia), Audiograft Festival (UK), Ashmolean Museum (UK), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, MISE-EN New Music Festival, Boston New Music Initiative, New Music on the Bayou, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Electronic Music Midwest, Kaleidoscope MusArt, Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble, UPS Piano Trio, Collage New Music Composer Colloquium, One Quiet Plunge, Hawaii Public Radio, Et Lux Radio, NACUSA, and SCI Regional and National Conferences. Mr. Wang is the winner of 2020 MUSIQA Emerging Composer Commission Competition, 2018-19 NEC Honors Composition Competition, 2018 BMOP/NEC Composition Competition, 2017 Longy Orchestral Composition Competition, and 2016 Sanya International Choral Festival (China). A recipient of China National Arts Fund, he is a winner of 2021 Jilin Music Award, a National Finalist of the 2019 American Prize, an Honorable Mention of the 2019 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, and a semifinalist of the Symphony Number One Call for Score 4. Tianyi is a member of Millennium Composers Initiative. His music has been released by Novona, Ablaze, and Petrichor Records.
Besides being a composer, Tianyi Wang’s outstanding piano skill won him the 2012 William Jewell Artist Competition and led to his concerto debut with Liberty Symphony Orchestra. In 2016, Tianyi Wang collaborated with London Symphony Orchestra in a recording production at Abbey Road Studio, London. In 2015, he founded and directed Qinyin Chamber Ensemble and led public performances throughout the city of Changchun, China. Tianyi’s research paper on Xibo music was featured at the 31st International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Tianyi has studied at William Jewell College (B.S. Composition, Mathematics; summa cum laude; Honor Graduate), Longy School of Music of Bard College (M.M. Composition), and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, where he is continuing his musical journey as a Doctor of Musical Arts Candidate at New England Conservatory of Music.