Jian Wang

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Jian Wang was born in China into a musical family in 1968. While still an infant he was given a makeshift cello (a violin with a stick placed in it to form an endpin) by his father, a fine cellist. Showing great musical promise (and perfect pitch), Jian soon began studying the cello with his father. In 1978, aged only nine, he entered the Shanghai Conservatory. In June 1979 Isaac Stern made an historic visit to China which was documented in the celebrated documentary film From Mao to Mozart (Oscar Award, 1981) and which introduced Jian Wang to music lovers the world over: the ten-year-old created a sensation playing Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Jian Wang plays a rare 1622 A & H Amati, graciously loaned to him by the family of the late Mr. Sau-Wing Lam. 1982 First American appearances in 1982 as soloist with a group of musicians from the Shanghai Conservatory; he immediately captures the attention of critics and public alike 1985 With the support and encouragement of both Isaac Stern and Sau-Wing Lam, a Chinese music enthusiast and philanthropist, Wang returns to the USA to study at the Yale School of Music with the renowned Brazilian cellist Aldo Parisot 1987 Accompanies the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of China on its first tour of the US. Their performances of the Elgar Concerto at the Kennedy Center in Wash¬ington, D.C., in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Los Angeles result in rave notices from the press. Makes his New York re

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Boccherini / Couperin / Frescobaldi / Monn: Cello Concertos

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Classically Nordic

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J.S. Bach: The Cello Suites

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111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon

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Bach, J.S.: Cello Suites

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Bach: The Cello Suites

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The Art Of Jian Wang

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111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon：111 Classic Tracks - CD6

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Haydn: Cello Concertos [DG 1999]

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111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon£º111 Classic Tracks - CD6

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Haydn: Cello Concertos

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