ABOUT
Praised by the Journal of Music as a remarkably brilliant and elegant flutist, Dr. Grace Wang enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, and educator. Having performed worldwide across Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America, she has performed on major stages including the Seoul Arts Center, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Kumho Art Hall, Musikschule Mannheim, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and multiple appearances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.
Dr. Wang has appeared as a soloist with the Seoul National University Symphony Orchestra and the Koreanisch Flute Orchestra and is the first prize winner of the Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition, American Protégé International Flute Competition, Rochester Flute Association Competition, Baltimore Music Club Competition, Golden Classical International Music Awards Competition, and the Korea Daily Chosun Music Competition. She has been selected as a finalist for the Myrna W. Brown and Byron Hester Competition, and was also a semi-finalist for the Astral Artists National Auditions and the Concert Artist Guild Victor Elmaleh Competitions. She has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Amadeus Concert Series, Riversdale Mansion Concert Series, Washington Arts Club, and has been selected as a rising artist by the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation.
An active chamber musician, she is founder and flutist of Daraja Ensemble, which held the Fellowship Woodwind Quintet Residency at the University of Maryland. The Ensemble has been featured on Maryland’s Classical Radio Station WBJC and has made television appearances on Fox, ABC, and CBS networks. Dr. Wang has also performed worldwide as a member of the TIMF (Tongyeong International Music Festival) Ensemble and Lunar Ensemble, and was invited to premiere Daniel Thomas Davis’s Book of the Lake commissioned by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
An avid orchestral musician, Dr. Wang has served as the principal flutist of the Seoul Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and DITTO Orchestra and performed as second flute/piccolo player of the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra for their 2020-22 season. She has also held positions with the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) Symphony Orchestra and Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed under the batons of leading conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, JoAnn Falletta, Andrew Litton, Dane Lam, and Valentina Peleggi.
A dedicated pedagogue, Dr. Wang has been invited to give masterclasses and clinics nationwide at institutions including Penn State University, George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Skidmore College, California State University, and the Peabody Institute Preparatory of The Johns Hopkins University. She has performed at major flute festivals and conventions, including the National Flute Association Convention, Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention, Texas Flute Society Flute Festival, Houston Flute Club Flute Fest, and the New Jersey Flute Convention. In 2016, she traveled to Tanzania to establish a general music education program for students in the TPC (Tanzania Plantation Company) sugar mill area, providing access to music education for the first time.
Dr. Wang recently earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Maryland under Dr. Sarah Frisof and Aaron Goldman, completing a dissertation commissioning and performing new flute repertoire by East Asian female composers. She previously studied with Marina Piccinini for her master’s degree at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Seoul National University under Hyeri Yoon.
She has served on the chamber music faculty at the University of Maryland and is currently flute faculty at The Potomac School and a mentor for Strathmore Music Center’s Arts & Social Justice Fellowship. She performs with the National Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra, York Symphony Orchestra, and is the second flutist of the Wintergreen Music Festival.
Dr. Wang is a performing artist with Muramatsu America and plays on a custom-made 14K gold Muramatsu flute with 9K gold keys.