May 05, 2004 -

Ottawa, Canada -- Violinist Jing Wang, First Prize winner of the 1997 Canadian Music Competitions and First Prize winner of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition in 1998, is the final artist to perform in recital on the 2004 National Arts Centre and CBC Radio Two Debut Series. With pianist Daniel Spiegel, Jing Wang will perform the music of Kreisler, Prévost, Franck and Ravel on Wednesday, May 19 at 12:00 noon in the NAC Studio.

These hour-long recitals, co-presented by the NAC and CBC Radio Two, give young Canadian musicians the opportunity to perform at the National Arts Centre and to have their recitals recorded and broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two. Admission is $2.00 with all proceeds going to the NAC Orchestra Bursary Trust Fund. Additional donations to the Fund are greatly appreciated.

Jing Wang and Daniel Spiegel will perform Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro, Improvisation for violin solo by Canadian composer André Prévost, Franck’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, and Ravel’s Tzigane.

Jing Wang began studying violin at age three in China, moved to France where he made his first public appearance at the age of six, and two years later arrived in Canada where he enrolled as a student of Jean Angers in the Quebec Conservatory. He now studies in the College Division of The Juilliard School with Sally Thomas. In 1993 Jing Wang won First Prize at the Quebec Provincial Music Competition. In addition to the Canadian Music Competition and MSO Competition First Prizes, he won Second Prize in the 2000 California International Young Artists Violin Competition, First Prize at the 2000 international competition “Concertino Prague” in Prague, and was nominated  “Le Titre de Jeune Solist” of all French Radio in 2002.

Jing Wang has performed with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitan de Grand Montréal, I Musici Orchestra, and the Violons du Roy, and he made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1999. He also performed as soloist with the Lorraine Philharmonic Orchestra and Picardie Symphony Orchestra in France. He toured the Czech Republic in 2001 and played with the Czech Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Dvorák Hall. In 2002 he performed with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky Hall. He has performed recitals in Canada, France, the United States, Czech, Italy, Russia, and China. Since 1995 Jing’s playing has been broadcast by Radio-Canada.

For more information please contact:
Jane Morris, Communications Officer,
National Arts Centre Orchestra
(613) 947-7000, ext. 335
jmorris@nac-cna.ca

Jill LaForty, CBC Radio
(613) 562-8571
lafortyj@ottawa.cbc.ca