Zitong Wang is from Inner Mongolia, China. She entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2012 where she is earning a bachelor’s degree. She studies with Meng-Chieh Liu, and until recently, Eleanor Sokoloff. She has also taken lessons with Dang Thai Son. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Zitong is the Marcy Gringlas and Joel Greenberg Annual Fellow.
Zitong made her solo recital debut at age 13 in Beijing’s Zhongshan Music Hall. She has performed at such venues as the Steinway Hall in New York, Verizon Hall in Philadelphia and Severance Hall in Cleveland. She has appeared as with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Hangzhou Philharmonic, Yakima Symphony, and Waring Festival Orchestras. Among other awards, she is a first-prize winner of the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition and Virginia Waring International Concerto Competition, as well as second-prize winner in the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition. In 2021, she competed in the 18th Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Interested in early music, Zitong studied harpsichord as secondary major at Curtis with Leon Schelhase, and has participated in a master class with Trevor Pinnock on antique harpsichords from the Flint Collection. Zitong began piano lessons at age three and previously studied with Hua Chang and Yuan Sheng at the Central Conservatory of Music Affiliated Middle School in Beijing.