Yiqian Wang
YIQIAN WANG, piano
Whitney (Yiqian) Wang is establishing herself as an insightful and sensitive pianist, currently signing with the KNS record label and performing at the Carnegie Hall.
Wang serves as a Student Piano Instructor for CCM Preparatory and is an MTNA Certified Teacher of Music and an MTNA Recreational Music Making Specialist.
Wang has been shortlisted for a wide range of influential awards throughout her music career. She was the First Prize Winner of the 2022 Golden Music Awards, the 2022 London Young Musicians, and the 2022 Toronto Rocky Mountain Music Competition. She was also a prizewinner of the Young Musician Competition “Citta di Barletta,” Markham Music Festival (Canada), Yangtze River Youth Piano Competition (China), Xi’an Conservatory of Music Piano Concerto Competition, Austria Lydia Liszt International Music Festival, and KAWAI Asia Piano Competition.
Wang has been a beloved performer at many music venues, having been invited as a solo and chamber pianist for multiple concerts and workshops across Asia and North America. In 2019, she was invited as the gold medalist of Markham Music Festival to perform at Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. Her other performance venues include Xi’an Conservatory of Music Art Centre, Qujiang Concert Hall (China), Edward Johnson Building (Canada), Strathcona Music Building (Canada), and Lorimer Chapel (USA).
Currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Wang began her piano journey at the age of four and made her debut at Xi’an Concert Hall when she was eleven. That same year, she went to the pre-college of Xi’an Conservatory of Music as an honor student. By the age of fourteen, Wang was accepted by the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and then moved to Toronto, Canada, to further pursue her musical path. During her school years, she served as a vocal accompanist for CCM keyboard studies, CCM Wind Ensemble Pianist, and the Recording Secretary for CCM-MTNA board.
