Shiran Wang (王詩然; born December 15, 1989, in

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) is a Chinese

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who has performed internationally. Wang started to play the piano at the age of four and a half, when she was 11 years old she began studying the piano in

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, China with Professor Aiping Jin in the Middle School at the

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. At the age of fifteen, she was awarded the First Prize at the Fourth International Prokofiev Piano Competition in Ukraine, winner of the Seventh

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Youth Pianist competition in Poland in 2007 and the Fourth Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition held in Moscow in 2008. She has studied with professor Dang Thai Son as well as at the

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with professors

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and

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. She has been invited to perform with orchestras including the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra,

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, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra,

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and the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Daejeon, Korea. She has also staged solo concerts for the works of specific composers, such as the solo concerts for

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and Chopin in Hong Kong. She performed with the Škampa Quartet at the

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in 2014. Shiran Wang's first album was published and released by

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in 2007 and will record

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's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Piano Concerto No. 2 with the conductor

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, and

's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Rome Symphony Orchestra.

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