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Dr. Maria Wang is a jazz singer in China, an expert in a variety of musical instruments. Maria has the complex vocal & range which is well adapted to a wide span of music, and she created the perfect harmony from the old, the new, the traditional classical and the modern Jazz of the music world. And now she works as a full-time teacher at the Modern Music Department of Guangzhou Xinghai Conservatory of Music.

Biography
In 2014, Maria obtained her doctorate degree in the major of music composition of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. During her study in Shanghai, she has been to Yale University as a visitor scholar since 2011 to 2012, major in post-modernism music analyzing and also led an international research team on it. In 2013, she has finished her thesis The Style Characteristic and Influence of Third Stream Music: Compositional Ideas and Techniques of Gunther Schuller. She is the first Chinese scholar to start this field. In the same year, she composed two symphonies, A Love Song of Tsangyang Gyatso and The Virus; these two great works have been performed in Shanghai, China and Hamburg, German.

From Maria’s early study in music, she has won the 3rd prize of National Composition Competition in Shanghai 1995 and the 4th prize of National Singing Competition in Beijing 2005.In 2007, Maria has given a jazz concert in Guangzhou Xinghai Concert hall with Hong Kong Jazz family, and she was the first singer in China to give a jazz concert in governmental concert hall. Maria has been to the Conservatorio di Cuneo in Italy as a senior visiting scholar from 2007-2009. She is the first Asian student in this conservatory’s 150 years history. Her major was Theory and Analysis of Music Languages. This course was the first of this kind to be introduced in Italy. In July 2009, Maria became the first person to graduate from this course in Italy.

During her endeavor in Italy, she has experienced more & newer musical trends and creation; she was successfully selected as a member of the famous Italian Malevar New Music Group, and again became the first Asian member in this group. Malevar New Music Group is a professional Italian musical organization, and was one of the Image Representatives for the UNICEF in 2006 & 2007 in Europe. Over the past, Maria has had performances around the world and has given 7 concerts in Italy and France. In August 2008, she has performed at the Martigues Music Festival and Antibes Music Festival; she was also invited both at the Royal Spanish New Year Concert 2009; the La Scala New Year Concert 2009 in Milan, Italy and July 2009 the Fado Festival in Portugal Coimbra. Also in China, Maria has been invited by many organizations to give concerts, October 2009 All that Jazz All that Love in Guangzhou Xinghai Concert Hall with big band; March 2011 Shanghai Concert Hall; 2014-2016 Guangdong International Jazz Week. With her broad experiences in music, this has laid a firm foundation for herself today.

Albums
BLOOMING (2017)

SOUTHERN BREEZE (2023)