Wang Xiaoming
First violin of Stradivari Quartet
Concertmaster of Philharmonia Zurich
the violin and chamber music instructors at the Zurich Music School Conservatory
Founder of Swiss Chinese chamber orchestra
Founder of MingClassics Festival & Academy
Image Ambassador for Culture tourism in Switzerland
Xiaoming Wang
Violinist
He competed with great success in Beijing in 1998. he won the first prize
at the Mi-Do International Violin Competition , in following year he also
won the first prize at the Stephanie Hohl violin Competition in Vienna and
the special award at the Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition
in Augsburg.
These awards enabled him as soloist with orchestras such as Zurih
Phiharmonia, Poznan Phiharmonic, Bergrad Phiharmonic, Vienna Webern
symphony, China NCPA orchestra and Guiyang Symphony. Concert tours
taken his musical life to Asia , USA, Australia, South America and
throughout Europe. He appears regularly as a soloist and chamber
musician at major stage all over the word such as Lincoln center in New
York , Vienna concert hall, Vienna musikverein ,Wigmore Hall London, Kioi
Hall Tokyo, China NCPA, Seoul arts center, Shanghai symphony concert
hall and Sydney opera haus. As well as at most important festivals such
as Verbier music Festival, Luzern music festival, Rheingau music festival,
Schleswig-holstein music festival, Kissinger summer festival, Macau
music festival, China NCPA May festival.
Xiaoming is currently serves as the concertmaster of Zurich Phiharmonia.
He has been concertmaster of Verbier festival Orchestra and also appears regularly as guest concertmaster working with Deutsch Radio
Philharmonic , Hamburg Philharmonic, Luzern Symphony orchestra, Bern
Symphony orchestra China NCPA orchestra and Singapore Symphony
orchestra. Conductors with whom he has word include maestro Lorin
Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Meta, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Gatti, Gustavo Dudamel,Myung-whun Chung and Valery Gergiev.
He has great passion for development of young talent , since 2018 he
founded the MingClassics Festival and academy in Switzerland.
Has been teaching at the Zurich Conservatory since 2023.