Wang Ying (composer)

Wang Ying (; born September 10, 1976) is a Chinese-born composer based in Berlin. Life Wang Ying was born in Shanghai, China. She began her musical education at the age of four, receiving piano lessons from her father, the composer Wang Xilin. At the Shanghai Conservatory of Music she studied composition with Prof. Gang Chen, Prof. Daqun Jia and instrumentation with Yang Liqing, completing a bachelor’s degree with honors in 2002. In 2003 she moved to Cologne, Germany for graduate studies with York Höller at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. From 2008 she studied electronic composition with Michael Beil and composition with Johannes Schöllhorn and Rebecca Saunders. In 2010 she completed a master’s degree in contemporary music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts while working with Helmut Lachenmann. At the Cologne Conservatory she studied for the Diplom and concert exam in composition as well as one in electronic composition – both were completed in 2011. In 2011 she was chosen to study at the “Cursus de composition et d’informatique musicale” at IRCAM in Paris, where she completed courses with Mauro Lanza, Philippe Leroux and Ivan Fedele, graduating in 201