biography
Jing Wang (b.1992) is a composer and new music improviser. Her composition includes chamber music, orchestra and stage works in a variety of themes, such as Time, Space, Nature, Game, Kung-Fu, etc. Her work Free fireflies has achieved the Honorable Mention of 2012 BICW New Music Award, and it has been premiered by E-MEX Ensemble. Since then, her music started to be performed in China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Austria, the US, Canada, Slovenia, Thailand, etc. She has participated in numerous music festivals in Europe and Asia, and worked closely with Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Traversée, Toolbox Percussion, TACETI Ensemble, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, China Youth Symphony Orchestra, etc.
Wang's work Beiss mich! was published by Breitklang & Härtel in Germany in 2020. Her composition The Flow won the First Prize at the 2020 TICA International Composition Competition, and Augenstern was awarded the Third Prize at ICIT 2023. In 2024, she was honored with the Distinguished Teacher Award at the 7th Liszt Ferenc International Music Competition. She was invited as a guest composer to the South China Contemporary Creative Music Institute in 2025, and in September of the same year, she served as a jury member for the Music Biennale Zagreb.
With regards to improvisation, Wang has performed new music as a pianist with improvisers and sound artists in Germany, Italy, Greece and Canada. She has also conducted salons of new music and improvisation in China. In 2025, she created and launched the inaugural course in musical improvisation at the University of Hong Kong.
Wang teaches in the Department of Music at the University of Hong Kong. She earned her Ph.D. in composition there under the supervision of Hing-yan Chan. She previously obtained her master’s degree from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany, where she studied with Johannes Schöllhorn, and her bachelor’s degree from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, under the guidance of Guo-ping Jia, Xin-min Luo, and Jian-ping Tang.