Twenty-four-year-old Chinese pianist Zitong Wang made her solo recital debut at age 13 in Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. She has performed at such venues as the Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Steinway Hall in New York, Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall, and Bay Opera of Shenzhen. She has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic, Yakima Symphony, and Waring Festival Orchestra as a soloist. She has worked with conductors Jahja Ling, Xian Zhang, Lina Gonzalez-Granados, José Trigueros, and Yang Yang.
Among others, she is a First Prize winner of the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition and the Virginia Waring International Concerto Competition, Second Prize at the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition, First Prize at the Princeton Festival Competition, First Prize and “Nelson Freire Prize” for the best performer of a piece by Frederick Chopin at the XXXIII Ferrol International Piano Competition (2022). She most recently received Sixth Prize and Best Contemporary Piece Prize at the 64th Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (2023).
A devoted chamber musician, Zitong has played alongside Meng-Chieh Liu, Don Liuzzi, Vera Quartet, Zorá Quartet, and toured with Roberto Díaz and musicians from Curtis. She has worked with composers Unsuk Chin, Bright Sheng, David Ludwig, and Alvin Singleton. In 2019 she appeared in the Intimacy of Creativity conference for composers (Hong Kong) as a guest pianist. She most recently appeared at Chamber Music Northwest in July 2023 as one of the selected Protégé Project artists, playing alongside Soovin Kim, Gloria Chien, and David Shifrin. She has also been featured on Stage+, Amadeus.tv, WRTI, WHYY TV, and All Classical Radio.
Interested in early music, Zitong studied harpsichord as secondary major at Curtis Institute of Music with Leon Schelhase, and was invited by Trevor Pinnock to perform in on various antique harpsichords at the Flint Collection.
Born in Inner Mongolia, China, in 1999, Zitong began piano lessons at age three and previously studied with Hua Chang and Yuan Sheng at the Central Conservatory of Music Affiliated Middle School in Beijing. At age thirteen, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Meng-Chieh Liu and Eleanor Sokoloff. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the New England Conservatory with Dang Thai Son.