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Shi-Hwa Wang, violin
DShi-Hwa Wang’s outstanding reputation as a violinist has earned him the post of concertmaster for several professional orchestras including the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Ballet West and Utah Chamber Orchestras in Salt Lake City, and the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Eisenstadt, Austria. An avid chamber musician, he is the founding member of the Formosan Violin-Piano Duo, the Wasatch Piano Trio, Browning String Quartet, and the Kismarton String Quartet.
As an educator Dr. Wang is the Professor of Violin at Weber State University. He has a keen sense of teaching which allows his students to achieve their very best. His pupils have constantly been prize-winners of state and national competitions. Many have gone on to graduate programs of the top music universities in the country or become accomplished teachers after graduation from WSU.
Dr. Wang has served as a clinician, adjudicator, and master class teacher, both nationally and internationally. He has taught violin in the summer programs at the University of Michigan, the Eastman School of Music, the University of Illinois, the International Workshops in Europe, Classical Music Festival in Austria, the Sewanee Music Festival, and the Banff International Youth Orchestra Festival in Canada. He taught violin at the Haydn Conservatory of Music in Austria as a visiting professor and toured many European countries as a solo recitalist. He frequently adjudicates and conducts master classes in Music Teachers National Association or American String Teachers Association’s state and national competitions and the Kiwanis Festival in Calgary, Canada. He was on the planning committee in the first American String Teachers Association (ASTA) National Conference in 2003. He is the director of the annual WSU ASTA Stringfest for string players of all ages and the executive director of the Sid & Mary Foulger International Summer Music Festival. He has served as the state president of ASTA and was its Utah Educator of the Year recipient.
A graduate of Soochow University, Dr. Wang studied violin with Cheu-Sen Chen in Taiwan. He holds Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) where his teachers include Yuri Mazurkevich, Catherine Tate, and Peter Schaffer. He also studied with Paul Kantor in Michigan, Camilla Wicks in California, and the late Raphael Bronstein in New York. Other pedagogues he has worked with include Gerald Fischbach, Igor Ozim, Ivan Strauss, Jaap Schroeder, and Arianna Brone. A performer in great demand, Wang has appeared frequently as a soloist, chamber musician, and guest concertmaster in the US, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, and Europe.