Ying Wang

In her compositions, Ying Wang (1976 in Shanghai) deals with topics such as environmental pollution, global social ills, political persecution, or man’s relationship to technology. In her work, she constantly seeks new interfaces with other media and arts such as dance, video, digital art, light, visual art and performance.

 

Ying Wang came from Shanghai in 2003, first to Cologne and finally to Berlin. She has collaborated with numerous orchestras and ensembles in Europe as well as Asia. In 2013, she was awarded the Giga-Hertz Prize Production Award and the Composer Award of the 5th Brandenburg Biennale. In addition to the IEMA scholarship in 2009/10, she received further scholarships from the Experimental Studio of the SWR, the Federal Ministry of Vienna and, at the suggestion of Peter Eötvös, from the Herrenhaus Edenkoben. In 2014 she won the 35th Irino prize for chamber orchestra in Tokyo. In 2015 the Deutschlandfunk invited her as »composer in residence« to the festival »Forum Neuer Musik« in Cologne. In 2017 she received the Heidelberg Künstlerinnenpreis. In 2020, she was a fellow of the German Academy in Rome.

 

Ying WANG completed her composition studies with York Höller, Rebecca Saunders and Johannes Schöllhorn at the HfMT Cologne. She studied electronic composition with Michael Beil. In 2010, she completed the master’s program in contemporary music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts on a scholarship from the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA). In 2012 she participated in the Cursus de Composition et d’informatique musicale/Ircam Paris.