Dedicated to honoring past musical traditions while forging new ones, Angela Wang is a multi-faceted artist who applies her technical and creative skills in genres such as jazz, rock, contemporary classical, and alternative. A classically trained pianist and composer, she brings a passion for excellence, authenticity, and originality into artistic collaborations that produce cross-genre, multimedia projects and novel musical offerings. Along with her experience and training in production, performance, jazz music, and film scoring, Angela has led ensembles, taught courses, and provided individual instruction within collegiate and private studio settings. She is currently the artistic director of "A Story of an Island (Taiwan)" and "Connecting Island Arts.(USA)" Her musical works are performed across the globe, she collaborates with artists from the United States and her home country Taiwan, and creates multi-disciplinary works every year. In the recent years, she has been focusing on creating work that combines music and dance.

Combining her distinctive blend of technical expertise and relational abilities, Angela bridges stylistic differences to build cohesive ensembles and craft innovative projects/productions with classical and contemporary musicians. One such project, A Story of an Island, began as a student-instructor collaboration. Under her leadership, this project has grown to involve artists from all over the globe creating productions utilizing cinematography, dance, visual art, and theater to portray the history and culture of her homeland, Taiwan.

Since founding her own studio in 2010, Angela has composed, performed, and produced original music for albums such as: Obsession: Live at Umay Theater Taipei 2024 (2024), Allure (2022), Metamorphosis (2021), Prayer (2021), Time of Lost (2020), A Story of an Island (2019), Journey (2013), and Love Is (2010). Her work in composition and arranging includes scores for multiple commercials and films, including The Final Sutter (2012) which received a screening at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Over the course of her career, Angela has worked alongside artists like photographer Von Taipei(Taiwan), choreographer Lindsey McGill (Houston), Sylvana Cecilia Tapia (NYC), and cinematographer and playwright Jessica Wang (Taiwan). She served as music director and collaborative pianist for AGT finalist Christina Wells,(Houston), guiding musical preparation and performances at Houston’s Miller Outdoor Theater. Recently, she has joined Michele Brangwen Dance & Music Ensemble (Houston/ NYC), performs voice, keyboard and dance.

Angela earned her Master of Music degree from New York University in Composition for Film and holds dual bachelor degrees from Berklee College of Music in Contemporary Writing & Music Production and Piano Performance. She has studied piano with jazz musician Ray Santisi and Radoslawa Jasik, orchestration with Bill Elliot, film scoring with Ira Newborn, and contemporary composition with Sergei Casanelles Abella. Prior to her musical career, she completed a Bachelor of Architecture, exercising her visual creativity and building the foundation for the collaborations that now pervade her career. Looking forward, Angela is eager to continue her work teaching budding musicians, building artistic partnerships, and sharing innovative art that inspires, educates, and challenges audiences around the world.

Angela Wang is a composer, pianist, singer-songwriter, music producer and music educator. Her music footprints spread from New York City to Taipei, and now Houston. Texas. She collaborates with musicians and dancers, film-makers around the globe. She has developed cross-art projects including her own "A Story of an Island" in recent years.

VISUAL ART AND MUSIC - "JOURNEY" PROJECT

​In May 2012, Angela started her second project "Journey." Based on her first College degree in Architecture and a year working in the design company, Angela has a sharp sense toward visual elements. In this project, Angela not only produced music, but also further explored the possibility to combine the visual elements, such as: stage design, costume, photography, painting and film.

​“Journey” included five original songs in different styles: progressive rock, alternative, ballad, Japanese rock and folk rock. The five songs told separated stories but all happened in a life journey. "Dance with the Strings" is the struggle of finding one's purpose and fighting against the world's definition; "Confliction" is the conflicts between one's left and right brain (passions and logic); "Dream" is about love and realty; "A Drop of Tear" is about the journey of achieving; finally, the song "Journey" is about the findings and answers after all.

 In this project, Angela started with a lyrical beginning: a story of a life journey, she then transformed it into music and visual design. She oil-painted the conceptual images, the image of kites flying in a blue sky reflected on a single eye, the eye was surrounded by a ocean of deep purple in the painting. In this painting, Angela wanted to express that our soul is free and full of possibilities, just like the kite flies freely in the sky, however sometimes life is clouded by our surroundings. In "Journey" project, Angela wanted to express one's struggle and the road he or she has to take, in order to find the purpose of life. Angela also designed two stage costumes for the project: one was a doll-like ballerina dressed in a deep-red skirt, with her arms and legs tied in thick chains and red strings. The red skirt color represented the desire and passion within the artist, the red strings attached to her arms and legs represented the vessels that are connected to the world around her; the other costume responded to the ballerina's costume with black and white colors, with the details of the chain as decorations.

​After the concept and music were formed, Angela collaborated with choreographer Sylvana Tapia, who is an extremely creative and characteristic dancer living in New York City, to put together an interactive show. The collaboration with a dancer completed the image Angela had in mind while composing the music, also sparkled the infinite possibilities between two arts.

 Angela started producing “Journey” CD in November 2012 in New York City, and it was released in June 2013. Angela showed her creativity and talent from the music production, such as: compositions, arranging, production, recording, mixing to the visual parts such as: CD cover design, costume design to video productions. When the show was on live, Angela based on her understanding for film and visual art, collaborated with accomplished photographer and cinematographer Yusuke Suzuki, created three concept videos: “Confliction,” “Dance with the Strings” and “Journey.”  After that, Angela produced the music video “Dream” with a collage of her photographs: 4 Season of New York City on her own.

​After “Journey” was on stages in NYC, she then had the tours oversea in Taiwan. She collaborated with accomplished choreographer and educator Duo Kosaciec in Taiwan. Duo applied eastern choreographic concepts and moves into “Journey” project, and infused her own style into the dance for Angela’s music. An experience of dance and contemporary music interactive live show was brought to Taiwan during December 2013 and January 2014. Angela performed with great musician friends in Taiwan, include: guitarist and music engineer Juin Wei (魏駿)，bassist Jack Ko and drummer Atama Hu (胡士國).

​“Journey” project showed Angela’s sensitivity in both musical and visual contents. Her background in architecture derived her abilities of developing her concert into different art forms and collaborating with other artists; while her music training allowed her to express herself with different style of music. There is a clear weight of spiritual and philosophical sense in her works, which came from her cultural background and personal experiences of life.

EARLY YEARS AND MUSIC EDUCATION

 Angela started classical piano training at age of 5. Her piano teacher recognized her talent for music right away. She was also an all-time choir member from elementary school to high school, where she received vocal trainings. When she was 15, she was chosen to be the accompanist of the worship team in “Bread of Life,” the largest church in Taipei. During over 10 years of service in the worship team in Bread of Life Church, she had become the band leader for the worship team, and had arranged, rehearsed and led worship for countless times. The experiences gave her understandings of songwriting, arranging for a modern band and different instruments.  She was able to compose, arrange and play in different music styles, such as: soul, funk, rock, gospel, jazz...etc. It also deepened her passion in music. Although she didn’t know it was her calling for life at the time, she often spent hours a day practicing music.

 In 1994, Angela graduated from Taipei Frist Girls’ High School, and got into the architecture program in Tamkang University. She got the Bachelor of Architecture degree with honors in 1999 and started her first design job in Touchstone International Partners and Architects in 2000. She participated project in TIPA, included "Zoo Mall Taipei" project and several collective housing projects in China. After working in Touchstone for 6 months, she continued her design job in EHS International, Hsuyuan Kuo Architects & Associates. She worked as an interior designer and participated in projects for apartments design, demonstration unit for pre-sale apartment buildings and open spaces design for apartment buildings.

 She stayed in EHS for another 6 months, until she realized her passion for music continued to grow. Although she enjoyed her designer’s job, she decided to let it go and switch her career to music. With the training in classical piano and her experiences leading the church band for a decade, she started to teach pop and classical music and right away. She formed a original metal band “Prophecy” and a Jazz band “Soul Steps" with her musician friends. She performed and taught around Taipei City, while she was preparing for her advanced music education by taking music composition classes and jazz piano lessons. During 2001-2004, Angela had built her career as a popular music teacher, Her metal band “Prophecy” was selected to perform in Spring Screen Music Festival 2004 in Taiwan. She also produced music for Children’s book, got a contract to write for pop singers and was an apprentice in “House Music Production and Recording Studios.”

​After 3 years of experiences in music, Angela got in Berklee College of Music, so she moved to Boston, MA, United Stated for her second undergraduate study in music. She was so excited to study something she has so much passion for, she wanted to learn everything came across her way, so she decided to duo-major in Contemporary Writing And Music Production, plus Music performance. She completed all the required credits within 9 semesters and got her degrees in the end of 2007.

​Berklee is one of the most prestigious jazz and contemporary music schools around the world nowadays. During three years in Berklee, Angela not only get to meet many accomplished musicians from around the world, she also met her first two music mentors, accomplished Hollywood movie composer, Bill Elliott, and jazz pianist/educator Ray Santisi. She was also equipped with the skill to be a great music producer by Michael Farquharson. With her hard work, she received a scholarship and "Contemporary Writing and Production Achievement Award" from Berklee College of Music on top of being on dean's list throughout all 9 semesters in Berklee during 2005-2007.

​During her time in Boston, Angela formed an original punk rock band “PICURE” with her musician friends. She was the lead singer and keyboardist. They regularly performed in the local venues in Boston, during 2005-2007, and recorded a single CD with 5 of their original songs in summer 2007.

​Followed her completion in Berklee College of Music, Angela continued her graduate study in Steinhardt, New York University in 2008. After her first year majored in Music Technology, Angela changed her major to Composition for Film after recognizing her greater interests in composition. Her mentor in NYU was Ira Newborn, an accomplished Hollywood film composer. During the time in New York University, she deepened her knowledge in classical music and contemporary music. She further study about orchestration and gained a great understanding about moving pictures by collaborating with film directors in New York City. Angela received her Master of Music degree from NYU in summer 2010.

​After graduation, Angela has never stopped learning. She has studied under many music masters in New York City, included: Christina Arthur, a great concert vocalist and vocal instructor; Madeline Bruser, classical pianist, accomplished piano educator and the author of “The Art of Practicing;” Gary Fisher, concert jazz pianist base in New York City; and professor Irina Morozova, piano professor of Mannes School of Music and Special Music School at Kaufman Center. Besides the lessons, the blooming art and music scene of New York City has inspired Angela continuously to the grow with a never-ending possibility for her future endeavors.