Shi-Hwa Wang has been concertmaster of half a dozen professional orchestras including the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan (1997-98) and is currently concertmaster of the Ballet West and Utah Chamber Orchestra in Salt Lake City and the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Eisenstadt, Austria (every summer).
Shi-Hwa Wang is a graduate of Soochow University, Taiwan where he studied violin with Cheu-Sen Chen. He holds Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) where his teachers included Yuri Mazurkevich, Catherine Tate, and Peter Schaffer. During the summer of 1985 he studied with the late Raphael Bronstein in New York. In 1988-90 he studied string pedagogy and violin with Robert Culver and Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan. He studied with Camilla Wicks and Stuard Canin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music during his sabbatical in 2002. He also performed in master classes for Jaap Schroeder, Edward Melkus, Gerald Fischbach, Igor Ozim, Ivan straus, Donald McInnes, and Camilla Wicks.
Dr. Wang has been the violinist with the Essex Piano Trio at Wayne State University, and concertmaster of the Melkus Ensemble, Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony Pop Orchestra, and Illinois Opera Theater. In 1994, concert tours by the Formosan Duo and Wasatch Piano Trio included performances at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, cities of Kaohsiung, Taichung, Singcheu, and at the University of Singapore. He has performed as guest concertmaster / soloist with the Oklahoma Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra, Weber State University Symphony Orchestra, and New American Symphony Orchestra. Performing tours as soloist with the Weber State Symphony Orchestra brought him to Shanghai, China in 2000, and Si'An, China in 2005.
He is a founding member of the Formosan Violin-Piano Duo and the Wasatch Piano Trio and the Kismarton String Quartet. He has done teaching and performing at the University of Michigan's American String Workshop, the Eastman School of Music's Summer Music Academy, and the University of Illinois. He was also on the faculty of the International Workshops at Graz, Austria in 1996 and Stavanger, Norway in 1997, and the Banff International Youth Orchestra Festival in Canada. He has been invited to adjudicate and conduct master classes in the Kiwanis Festival in Calgary, Canada in 1997 and 2002.
Considered as one of the most prolific violin teachers of his generation, Dr. Wang's violin students have been in the national finals of the Music Teachers National Association Performance Competitions three times. Many of his students are state competition winners of the Utah Music Teachers Association and the Utah American String Teachers Association. Every year his students are represented in the Concerto Night Concert of the Weber State University Orchestra. A resident of Ogden, Utah where he has been a violin professor of the Weber State University since 1990. Dr. Wang has students not only active as performers and teachers around the state of Utah, many have gone on to graduate schools for their Master of Music or Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees. Dr. Wang is past president of the Utah American String Teachers Association with National School Orchestras Association (ASTA with NSOA) and the Educator of the Year recipient for 2003-2004. Dr. Wang was the Pre-college Master Class Teacher at the 2006 ASTA National Conference in Kansa City.
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