MARIA WANG

Maria Wang is a jazz singer in China, an expert in a variety of musical instruments. Maria has the complex vocal & range which is well adapted to a wide span of music, and she created the perfect harmony from the old, the new, the traditional classical and the modern Jazz of the music world. And now she works as a full-time teacher at the Modern Music Department of Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music.

In 2014, Maria obtained her doctorate degree in the major of music composition of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. During her study in Shanghai, she has been to Yale University as a visitor scholar since 2011 to 2012, major in post-modernism music analyzing and also led an international research team on it. In 2013, she has finished her thesis The Style Characteristic and Influence of Third Stream Music: Compositional Ideas and Techniques of Gunther Schuller. She is the first Chinese scholar to start this field. In the same year, she composed two symphonies, A Love Song of Tsangyang Gyatso and The Virus; these two great works have been performed in Shanghai, China and Hamburg, German.

From Maria’s early study in music, she has won the 3rd prize of National Composition Competition in Shanghai 1995 and the 4th prize of National Singing Competition in Beijing 2005.In 2007, Maria has given a jazz concert in Guangzhou Xinghai Concert hall with Hong Kong Jazz family, and she was the first singer in China to give a jazz concert in governmental concert hall. Maria has been to the Conservatorio di Cuneo in Italy as a senior visiting scholar from 2007-2009. She is the first Asian student in this conservatory’s 150 years history. Her major was Theory and Analysis of Music Languages. This course was the first of this kind to be introduced in Italy. In July 2009, Maria became the first person to graduate from this course in Italy.