Name: William Wang (G), piano
Start: 2024-05-03T17:00:00
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Music and Theater Arts

William Wang is a sixth-year PhD student in computer science, working with Ali Jadbabaie at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He currently studies with David Deveau as an Emerson/Harris Fellow; his past teachers include Betty Woo and James Gard- ner, and he has participated in masterclasses with Olga Kern, Rohan de Silva, Sang Woo Kang, and Gloria Chien. William is a four-time winner of the US Open Music Competition, first place winner of the East Bay Music Festival, and audience favorite prizewinner for the Pacific Musical Society Competition. William won the UC Berkeley concerto competition and performed Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto with the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra in 2017 – he would later perform the same concerto with the Boston Pops as part of the MIT Tech Night celebrations in 2021. In addition to solo repertoire, William has enjoyed playing in many group en- sembles at MIT, such as the Chamber Music Society and Jazz Combos, Middle Eastern Ensemble, and Ribotones, a musical outreach group which performs at assisted living homes. Apart from music, William enjoys cooking, baking sweets, and playing table tennis.