Violinist Amanda Wang was born in Shanghai and raised in Baltimore, where she studied violin with Shirley Givens at the Peabody Preparatory. She majored in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology while developing a love for chamber music as an active member of the MIT Chamber Music Society. Ms. Wang resumed her musical studies at the Boston Conservatory and Boston University with Lynn Chang and Bayla Keyes. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the last string quartet of the late Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Ms. Wang continued to work in both musical and nonmusical fields, including founding and playing with the Ellipsis Piano Trio and attending carpentry school at the North Bennet Street School. Ms. Wang is a first-prize recipient of the New England International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition, an MIT Emerson Fellow, and a recipient of Boston University's CFA Scholarship. Reviewers have noted her “full, sonorous, perfectly centered tone with awesome bow control.” Amanda has been an avid gardener since moving to Duxbury in 2018.
