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Shi-Hwa Wang
Shi-Hwa Wang has been concertmaster of several professional
orchestras including the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Ballet West and Utah Chamber
Orchestra in Salt Lake City, and the
Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Eisenstadt,
Austria.
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. Additional violin studies include the late
Raphael Bronstein at Manhattan School of Music; string pedagogy and violin
with Robert Culver and Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan
and; with Camilla Wicks and Stuard Canin at the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music. He also performed in master classes for Jaap Schroeder, Edward
Melkus, Gerald Fischbach, Igor Ozim, Ivan straus, Donald McInnes, and
Camilla Wicks.
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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 Orchestra (Pop Concerts), 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 orchestra brought him to
Shanghai, China in 2000 and 2005.
He is a founding member of the Formosan Violin-Piano Duo, 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. In 2009 he
was invited as a visiting professor of violin at the Haydn Konservatorium,
one of the six state-run music conservatories in Austria. He was also on the
faculty of the International Workshops at Graz,
Austria and Stavanger, Norway,
and the Banff International Youth Orchestra Festival in Canada. He
was a frequent adjudicator and clinician for the Kiwanis Festival in Calgary, Canada.
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.
MY
VIOLIN STUDIO
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Second
Year Ear-Training Class
String Method Class 2871
String Method Class 2872
WSU ASTA Stringfest
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