BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT LIN WANG
Lin Wang’s music is intrinsically dramatic and compassionate. For Lin Wang, music is a life-long journey of searching for spiritual homeland and meaning of life. For that sake, her music speaks of thoughts of her as a music citizen in the globalized world about important, common issues of humanistic concern.
A milestone of her career came when she composed for the Munich Biennale in 2008-09. This commission resulted in her first opera Die Quelle (The Source or The Spring) premiered in May, 9. 2010. She and Can Xue were the co-librettists of the opera. Festival artistic director Peter Ruzika said that this opera “with its specific aesthetics is without doubt one of the most important operas in the history of our festival…”. In 2012, her double concerto …To be Sung in the Woods… was commissioned and premiered by Deutsche Radio Philharmonic Saarbrucken Kaiserslautern, Germany. Her music theatre for children Oh, wie schoen ist Panama! (Oh, How beautiful is Panama!) was premiered in January 26. 2013 in Deutsche Opera Berlin, Germany.
Lin Wang has worked with many renowned conductors, instrumentalists, singers, ensembles and orchestras. Her music has been performed in European, American and Asian countries, broadcasted by many radio stations, and recorded as CDs. The list of radio stations includes SWR, SR, NRW, WDR, Koeln Radio, Berlin Radio, Frankfurt Radio, Luxemburg Radio, Holland Radio, and Radio France. She has won numerous awards and grants from contemporary music festivals and events.
Lin Wang was born and brought up in Dalian, a beautiful coastal city in northern China. She studied at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. There she won the first prize of the Maki Ishii China-Japan Competition (1998), as well as the NLCC 20th Anniversary Choral Composition Prize in UK (2000). In 2002 she went to Saarbrucken to continue her study in composition with Theo Brandmueller, and studied electronic music at IRCAM, Paris, in France. Later, she studied with Chaya Czernowin in Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. She holds two Ph.D. degrees in Composition and Music Theory, and Theater Philosophy.
In 2009, Lin Wang founded the OCC (Our Creative Commune) artist group for music theaters in Beijing and has been its artistic director. She organized artists from different professional disciplines from around the world, including directors, actors/actresses, photographers, sound engineers, painters, dancers, singers, and instrumentalists.
She was a trainee in Zurich Opera House (Switzerland), Hannover Opera House (Germany), Bremen Theater and Thalia Theater in Hamburg (Germany) to learn opera and theater directing.
Lin Wang is also writing a book with two Austrian authors together about the Chinese Cultural Scene after 2000. It provides an overview of various artistic fields, such as music, literature, theater, film and other forms of visual arts.
A milestone of her career came when she composed for the Munich Biennale in 2008-09. This commission resulted in her first opera Die Quelle (The Source or The Spring) premiered in May, 9. 2010. She and Can Xue were the co-librettists of the opera. Festival artistic director Peter Ruzika said that this opera “with its specific aesthetics is without doubt one of the most important operas in the history of our festival…”. In 2012, her double concerto …To be Sung in the Woods… was commissioned and premiered by Deutsche Radio Philharmonic Saarbrucken Kaiserslautern, Germany. Her music theatre for children Oh, wie schoen ist Panama! (Oh, How beautiful is Panama!) was premiered in January 26. 2013 in Deutsche Opera Berlin, Germany.
Lin Wang has worked with many renowned conductors, instrumentalists, singers, ensembles and orchestras. Her music has been performed in European, American and Asian countries, broadcasted by many radio stations, and recorded as CDs. The list of radio stations includes SWR, SR, NRW, WDR, Koeln Radio, Berlin Radio, Frankfurt Radio, Luxemburg Radio, Holland Radio, and Radio France. She has won numerous awards and grants from contemporary music festivals and events.
Lin Wang was born and brought up in Dalian, a beautiful coastal city in northern China. She studied at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. There she won the first prize of the Maki Ishii China-Japan Competition (1998), as well as the NLCC 20th Anniversary Choral Composition Prize in UK (2000). In 2002 she went to Saarbrucken to continue her study in composition with Theo Brandmueller, and studied electronic music at IRCAM, Paris, in France. Later, she studied with Chaya Czernowin in Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. She holds two Ph.D. degrees in Composition and Music Theory, and Theater Philosophy.
In 2009, Lin Wang founded the OCC (Our Creative Commune) artist group for music theaters in Beijing and has been its artistic director. She organized artists from different professional disciplines from around the world, including directors, actors/actresses, photographers, sound engineers, painters, dancers, singers, and instrumentalists.
She was a trainee in Zurich Opera House (Switzerland), Hannover Opera House (Germany), Bremen Theater and Thalia Theater in Hamburg (Germany) to learn opera and theater directing.
Lin Wang is also writing a book with two Austrian authors together about the Chinese Cultural Scene after 2000. It provides an overview of various artistic fields, such as music, literature, theater, film and other forms of visual arts.