Yiyang Wang as a composer seeks to crush the boundaries of styles though a deconstructed blend of genres and fickle usage of limited materials of sound and beyond.
Wang is the recent winner of Icarus Quartet iQ Tests commissioning project. Her film score project won the Kaspar T. Locher Creative Fellowship at Reed College, and her very first composition won the Grand Prize in Chamber Music Northwest Composition Competition. She has collaborated with Icarus Quartet, Tim Fain, Transient Canvas, Mivos Quartet, Steven Beck, and Fear No Music, with her music presented in Red Note New Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, the Walden School, European-American Musical Alliance, and Wintergreen Summer Festival, and participated in masterclasses with David Rokowski, Stacy Garrop, and Christopher Theofanidis.
Wang is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition under the guidance of Felipe Lara at Peabody Institute, where she also studied with Kevin Puts, Herold Meltzer and Christopher Cerrone for her Master’s degree. She holds a BA, with Phi Beta Kappa, from Reed College, where she was first inspired to compose studying with David Schiff.