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Zeru Wang DMA Piano Recital

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Program 

Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111      Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Moment Musical Op. 16      Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Etude in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10 “Octave”    Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Etude in G-sharp Minor, Op. 25 No. 6 “Double Thirds”    Frédéric Chopin

Nocturnes, Op. 55      Frédéric Chopin

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A native of Hangzhou, China, pianist Zeru Wang is a Doctoral of Music Arts candidate in piano performance studying with Professor Christopher Taylor at University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music. He holds his Bachelor of Music degree at University of Missouri, Columbia under Dr. Peter Miyamoto.

Mr. Wang is a prize winner of many international and national piano competitions including the WPTA (World Piano Teacher Association) international Piano Competition, the Joyeux International Piano Competition, the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music and the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) Young Artist Piano Competition. In addition to the 2021 Beethoven Competition held by the University of Wisconsin, he was selected as winner of 2015 MU Concerto Competition and the 2015 MU Emerging Artist Competition. At both University of Missouri and University of Wisconsin, Mr. Wang received various scholarships including Jack Radunsky Award, Leo Steffens Award, 2018 Leon & Josephine Iltis Award and Jan Blankenship Memorial Scholarship. As equally passionate as producing solo piano music, Mr. Wang enjoys performing collaborative and chamber music with both faculties and students from University of Missouri, Interharmoy International Music Festival, Odyssey Summer Music Festivals and Bowdoin International Summer Music Festival. In 2018 he was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York with the Interharmony Chamber Music Series. In addition, he has collaborated with prominent musicians such as Saeka Matsuyama, Jonathan Weber and Miho Zaitsu and many outstanding students from various institutions around the world. As an active teacher, Mr. Wang enjoys giving private lessons to students of all age. He has also conducted masterclasses on repertoires of Chopin and lectures on the subject of Piano Literature at the University of Wisconsin.

From the age of three until he came to the United States, Mr. Wang studied with Professor Linlin Wang of the Shenyang Conservatory. He has performed in the master classes of Richard Goode, Sergei Babayan, Alessio Bax, Julian Martin, Julio Elizalde, Gabriel Chodos, Corey Hamn and Mei-Hsuan Huang. He has studied with Peter Serkin, Yoon Hi Moon, Douglas Humphreys, Natalya Antonova, Bruce Brubaker, Sean Duggan, Sang Woo Kang and Daniela Mineva at summer festivals.