Sean Wang

Visiting Adjunct Instructor of Viola

Ph.D., Stanford University
M.M., The Juilliard School
B.M., Curtis Institute of Music

Sean Wang is a Taiwanese American musician whose career includes
international activities as a violinist, violist, conductor, and musicologist.
American Record Guide has called him “a brilliant violinist” whose “quality [of]
playing is exceedingly high.” A well-versed musician in multiple genres of
Western art music, he is also a proponent of intercultural music, broadly
defined as music in which Western and non-Western elements integrate.

He has performed extensively as a recitalist and chamber musician at
prominent venues in North America, Europe, and Asia, including Carnegie
Hall and Lincoln Center. On the podium, he has led orchestras of the Juilliard
School, Longy School of Bard College, and Stanford University in symphonic
and opera performances. As a musicologist, he has published book reviews,
presented at national and international conferences, and worked as a music
critic. He has been on faculty at the Longy School of Bard College (over the
years as Chair of Strings Department, Director of Longy Conservatory
Orchestra, and Director of Intercultural Music Initiative), Vanderbilt University,
University of Houston, and University of Connecticut, as well as Cremona
Academy (Italy), Sewanee Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, among others.
On the administrative front, in 2014 he founded the New York Intercultural
Music Society, which commissioned, recorded, and performed new music
written for both Western and non-Western instruments. In 2013-14 he served
as Interim Director of Bach Society Houston, an early music performing
organization and presenter with a sixteen-member choir, for which he
formed Bach Orchestra Houston as the organization’s second in-house
ensemble. Since 2022, he serves as Co-Artistic Director of Interwoven, a New
York City-based nonprofit performing group focusing on intercultural art
music.

He holds degrees from Curtis Institute of Music (BM, violin), The Juilliard
School (MM, conducting), and Stanford University (PhD, musicology and
humanities). His principal teachers were Rafael Druian, Otto-Werner Mueller,
Jacques-Louis Monod, and William Mahrt.