Wang Hua-Yi

Mr. Wang Hua-Yi came from Beijing, China. In 1951, Mr. Wang was one of the final sixteen most talented youth selected in the national music talent search, and during the same year he began to learn to play the violin and the piano in the youth class of the China Conservatory of Music. After graduating with honor in 1953, he started to take lessons from the famous violinist, Mr. Wang Zhi-Long, in the Middle School of the China Conservatory of Music. While still a student in the Middle School of the C.C.M., he sat in the class taught then by Russian expert teachers, and he was the youngest in that class. After achieving a very high score in a special national examination in 1958, Mr. Wang was given the opportunity to go to the (former) Soviet Union for further study, with all expenses to be paid by the Chinese government. Unfortunately, he could not make it due to some historical reasons. In 1959, Mr. Wang finished first in his class, and was accepted by the most famous music school in China, the China Conservatory of Music, without even having to take the national college entrance examination. There he studied the violin with the famous artist, Zhou Si-Yu. The following year, the world famous artist, Mr. Ma Si-Chong, personally picked Mr. Wang to be his student to specialize in the study of the French and Belgian school of violin and composition. During his college years, he was the concert master in the school’s orchestra. He also played the first violinist in the international competition of Schumann’s String Quartet. Mr. Wang also participated, on behalf of the school, in many solo performances at the national level. He was also recommended by Mr. Ma Si-Chong to teach and lecture in music schools in different cities and provinces in China. In 1964, Mr. Wang graduated with the highest honor from the China Conservatory of Music, and was employed to be the future concert master in the China Philharmonic Orchestra. While being trained as the future concert master, Mr. Wang was teaching in the elementary and the middle schools of the China Conservatory of Music, and in the Chinese Society Music School. In 1985, Mr. Wang came to the U.S. and enrolled in the M. A. program in the Brooklyn School of Music, where he was taught and advised by a Russian violinist, Isak Vigdofchik. In 1988, an M. A. in violin was conferred on him. Now he is teaching the violin in New Jersey.