Cliburn Junior 2015 Zitong Wang Preliminary Round

First Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival June 21–28, 2015 • TCU Fort Worth, TX, USA Program: BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 7 in D Major, op. 10, no. 3: I. Presto CHOPIN Etude in G-sharp Minor, op. 25, no. 6 SCRIABIN Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp Major, op. 30 Born in Inner Mongolia of China, Zitong Wang was first introduced to piano at an early age, and made her solo recital debut at age 13 in Beijing’s Zhongshan Music Hall. She moved to Philadelphia from China three years ago to study with Meng-Chieh Liu and Eleanor Sokoloff at The Curtis Institute of Music. She has also taken frequent lessons with Beatrice Long, and master classes with Seymour Lipkin, Gary Graffman, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. First-prize winner of the Tureck International Bach and Virginia Waring International Concerto Competitions, she most recently won second prize at the 2014 Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition. She has appeared with the Cleveland, Hangzhou Philharmonic, Yakima Symphony, and Waring Festival Orchestras, among others. Also interested in early music, she studies harpsichord as a secondary major at Curtis with Leon Schelhase, and has participated in master class with Trevor Pinnock on antique harpsichords from the Flint Collection. For more information about the Cliburn and its programs: http://www.cliburn.org