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Ryan Wang
Ryan Wang, 16 years old, from Vancouver Canada, started playing piano at the age of four, and performed his first solo recital at the age of six. In 2013, he began his musical studies under the tutelage of Professor Lee Kum Sing and Dr. Sunsung Kong. He is currently studying on a music scholarship with Mr. Gareth Owen at Eton College in the UK, and received his Artist Diploma under Professor Marian Rybicki at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in France in May 2024, being the youngest ever to win the Prix Cortot.
Ryan maintains a busy concert career as both a soloist as well as with orchestras across the globe, most notably in Europe, Asia, and North America. He has performed in many important and prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Salle Cortot, on the Ellen deGeneres Show, RTHK radio 4 (HongKong), CCTV 4 (China), CBC Music, live on FM96.3 Toronto’s Radio Station at Zoomer Hall, and Radio Classique in France. He was invited to perform as part of the cultural component of Canada’s participation in the APEC Summit in Beijing, 2014, and he was also invited to give a private recital in Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper’s home. Orchestral appearances include those with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Festival Orchestra, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, West Coast Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and many more.
Among his awards are wins in the 2022 International Piano Competition ‘SAMSON FRANCOIS’, 2023 Jeune Chopin International Piano Competition in Switzerland, 2023 Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists (senior group), 18th Animato International Piano Competition in Paris Frederic Chopin edition in 2023, and 2024 Prix du Piano Bern. In 2017 and 2019, Ryan was the recipient of the Emerging Artist Grant from the Vancouver Academy of Music. In March 2023, aged 15, Ryan was the youngest musician to be included on the list of 30 brilliant Rising Stars all under the age of 30 by the British radio station Classic FM. Ryan was also included in the New Generation Piano series 2022-2023 with 3 other pianists (Bruce Liu, Alim Beisembayev, and Yunchan Lim) by the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and he was invited to perform a solo recital at the Fondation’s concert hall in Paris in 2023.
Ryan Wang is a Young Steinway Artist.