Shiran Wang (王詩然; born December 15, 1989, in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

) is a Chinese

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

who has performed internationally. Wang started to play the piano at the age of four and a half, when she was 11 years old she began studying the piano in

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, China with Professor Aiping Jin in the Middle School at the

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. At the age of fifteen, she was awarded the First Prize at the Fourth International Prokofiev Piano Competition in Ukraine, winner of the Seventh Arthur Rubinstein Youth Pianist competition in Poland in 2007 and the Fourth Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition held in Moscow in 2008. She has studied with professor Dang Thai Son as well as at the

International Piano Academy Lake Como The International Piano Academy Lake Como is a piano academy. Administration *President of Honor: Martha Argerich *President and Artistic Director: William Grant Naboré *Vice President: Stanislav Ioudenitch Location and facility The majestic ...

with professors

Dmitri Bashkirov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Башки́ров; November 1, 1931 – March 7, 2021) was a Russian pianist and academic teacher. Trained in his hometown Tbilisi and Moscow, he began an in ...

Fou Ts'ong Fou Ts'ong (; 10 March 1934 – 28 December 2020) was a Chinese-born British pianist who was the first pianist of his national origin to achieve international recognition. He came to prominence after winning third prize and the Polish Radio Prize ...

and

William Grant Naboré The pianist and pedagogue, William Grant Nabore’ was born in Roanoke, Virginia (USA) where he studied with Kathleen Kelly Coxe, a pupil of Alexander Siloti, the teacher of Sergej Rachmaninov and afterwards with the eminent musicologist, Anne ...

. She has been invited to perform with orchestras including the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra,

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, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Daejeon, Korea. She has also staged solo concerts for the works of specific composers, such as the solo concerts for

Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one o ...

and Chopin in Hong Kong. She performed with the Škampa Quartet at the

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in 2014. Shiran Wang 's first album was published and released by China Record Corporation in 2007 and will record

Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throughout his life as a major compo ...

's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Piano Concerto No. 2 with the conductor

Maxim Shostakovich Maxim Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (russian: Макси́м Дми́триевич Шостако́вич; born 10 May 1938 in Leningrad) is a Soviet, Russian and American conductor and pianist. He is the second child of the composer Dmitri Shostak ...

, and

's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Rome Symphony Orchestra.

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