From Vancouver, Canada, Ryan Wang started playing piano at the age of four, and performed his first solo recital at the age of six. In 2013, he began his musical studies under the tutelage of Professor Lee Kum Sing and Dr. Sunsung Kong. He is currently studying on a music scholarship with Mr. Gareth Owen at Eton College in the United Kingdom and is in the Artist Diploma program with Professor Marian Rybicki at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in France.
Ryan has performed in many important and prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Fazioli Concert Hall, RTHK radio 4 in HongKong, CCTV 4 (China), CBC Music, and live on FM96.3 Toronto’s Radio Station at Zoomer Hall. He was invited to perform as part of the cultural component of Canada’s participation in the APEC Summit in Beijing in 2014, and he was also invited to perform a private recital in the Canadian Prime Minister’s home. Orchestral appearances include those with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Festival Orchestra, Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, West Coast Symphony Orchestra and many more. He is also a successful chamber musician.
Among his awards are as a prize winner in the Canadian Music Competition, Seattle International Piano Competition, Young Euregio Piano Award Competition, the 29th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Youth in Szafarnia (Poland), Chicago International Music Competition, Paderewski International Piano Competition, Ettlingen International Piano Competition, the International Piano Competition ‘SAMSON FRANCOIS’, and Jeune Chopin International Piano Competition in Switzerland. In 2017 and 2019, Ryan was the recipient of the Emerging Artist Grant from the Vancouver Academy of Music.