Mr. Jian WANG (Portugal)
Cellist

Jian WANG began to study the cello with his father when he was four. While a student at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he was featured in the celebrated documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Mr. Stern’s encouragement and support paved the way for him to go to the United States and in 1985 he entered the Yale School of Music under a special programme where he studied with the renowned cellist Aldo Parisot.

Jian WANG has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Netherlands, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra. These concerts have been with many of the greatest conductors, such as Abbado, Sawallisch, Jarvi, Chailly, Dutoit, Eschenbach, Chung, Gilbert and Gustavo Dudamel. As a jury member, Jian WANG has judged many of the most important competitions, including the International Tchaikovsky Cello Competition, the Queen Elizabeth Cello Competition, the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition and the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition.

Jian WANG has made many recordings, his latest releases being the Elgar Cello Concerto and Reverie, a collection of cello and guitar sketches with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy. In addition, he has recorded an album of the complete Bach’s Cello Suites, and a Baroque album with the Camerata Salzburg, Brahms’ Double Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado and Gill Sanham, the Haydn Concerti with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Muhai Tang, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” (with Myung-Whun Chung, Gil Shaham and Paul Meyer) and Brahms, Mozart and Schumann chamber music with Pires and Dumay. His instrument is graciously loaned to him by the family of the late Mr. Sau-Wing Lam.