Lucy wang

Canadian violinist Lucy Wang is a recipient of the prestigious 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a founding member of the Viano Quartet. Praised for their “virtuosity, visceral expression, and rare unity of intention” (Boston Globe), the quartet rose to international acclaim as First Prize winners of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and are Bowers Artists at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 2024–2027.

Lucy performs widely across North America, Europe, and Asia, and collaborates with leading artists such as pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Sir Stephen Hough, and Jon Kimura Parker, violinists James Ehnes and Pinchas Zukerman, guitarist Milos Karadaglic, soprano Fleur Barron, mandolinist Avi Avital, and singer-songwriter Vienna Teng. She has performed at renowned venues including London’s Southbank Centre, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Dublin's National Concert Hall, Toronto's Koerner Hall, and Hong Kong City Hall Theatre.

Committed to both masterworks and contemporary repertoire, Lucy regularly collaborates with leading composers including Sir Stephen Hough, Kevin Lau, and Caroline Shaw, and will premiere a new work by Reena Esmail in 2026. She has mentored young artists at institutions such as Music@Menlo, the Colburn Academy, Stanford University, the University of Victoria, Northwestern University, and Duke University.

Her discography includes Voyager (Platoon Records, 2025) and the Portraits (Curtis Studio, 2023), featured on CBC, BBC, and Performance Today. She maintains a vibrant social media presence with 50 million views and 600,000 followers worldwide.

Lucy graduated from the Curtis Institute and the Colburn Conservatory, where she studied with Martin Beaver. She plays on the ca. 1700 Bell Giovanni Tononi violin, generously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank.