Born in 1992, Jing Wang is a composer and new music improviser. Her body of work spans chamber music, orchestral pieces, and stage compositions, exploring diverse themes such as time, space, nature, games, and martial arts. Her composition Free Fireflies received an Honourable Mention at the 2012 Beijing International Composition Workshop New Music Award and was premiered by the E-MEX Ensemble. Since then, her music has been performed in numerous countries, including China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, Austria, the United States, Canada, Slovenia, and Thailand. She has participated in many prestigious music festivals across Europe and Asia, collaborating closely with renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Les Métaboles, Ensemble Multilatérale, Ensemble Traversée, Toolbox Percussion, TACETi Ensemble, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and the China Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Wang’s work Beiß mich! was published by Breitkopf & Härtel in Germany in 2020. Her composition The Flow won First Prize at the 2020 Toolbox Percussion International Composition Competition, while Augenstern was awarded Third Prize at the 2023 International Composition Institute of Thailand Award. In 2025, she was invited to serve as Guest Composer at the South China Contemporary Creative Music Institute and as a jury member for the Music Biennale Zagreb’s open call for artists.

In addition to her compositional achievements, Wang is an accomplished improviser. She has performed as a pianist in new music and improvisation collaborations with improvisers and sound artists in Germany, Italy, Greece, and Canada. She has also organized new music and improvisation salons in China. In 2025, she introduced a course on Musical Improvisation at the University of Hong Kong, where she earned her PhD in Composition under the supervision of Chan Hing-yan. She previously obtained her master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany, studying with Johannes Schöllhorn, and her bachelor’s degree from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where her mentors included Jia Guoping, Luo Xinmin, and Tang Jianping.
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