Name: William Wang (G), piano 2023
Start: 2023-04-28T17:00:00
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Wang

MIT Music and Theater Arts

La Vida es Sueño/Life is a Dream

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

William Wang is a fifth-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 Fellow; his past teachers include Betty Woo and James Gardner. William is a four-time winner of the US Open Music Competition, first place winner of the East Bay Music Festival, and audience favorite prize-winner for the Pacific Musical Society Competition. He has also played in masterclasses with Olga Kern and Hans Boepple. 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 is an active member of the MIT Chamber Music Society and performs at assisted living homes with the MIT Ribotones. Apart from music, William enjoys cooking, baking sweets, and playing table tennis.