See Siang Wong is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

/Chinese

Chinese people

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 pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

. He currently lives in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

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Biography

See Siang Wong studied in Holland with Marjès Benoist and in Switzerland with the pianists Homero Francesch

Homero Francesch

Homero Francesch is a Uruguay-born Swiss pianist.He attended piano lessons under Santiago Baranda Reyes in Uruguay and in 1967 he was awarded a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service...

 and Bruno Canino. He made his debut at the mere age of twelve, accompanied by the Dutch Radio Orchestra.

See Siang Wong has given concerts in more than 30 countries throughout Europe, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East. He has performed with conductors like Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

 (Webern “Konzert”, Berio “O King”, Boulez “Dérive I” at the Lucerne Festival), Ralf Weikert (Mozart piano concerto No. 23 KV 488), Howard Griffiths

Howard Griffiths (conductor)

Howard Griffiths is a British conductor. He studied music at the Royal College of Music, London.He has lived in Switzerland since 1981. From 1996 to 2006, he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra . Griffiths is a champion of music by contemporary Turkish and...

 (Mozart piano concerto No. 12 KV 414). He has appeared at famous concert halls in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

 (Concertgebouw), London

London

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 (St. Martin-in-the-Fields), Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

 (Tonhalle), Lucerne

Lucerne

Lucerne is a city in north-central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of that country. Lucerne is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and the capital of the district of the same name. With a population of about 76,200 people, Lucerne is the most populous city in Central Switzerland, and...

 (KKL), Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 (Salle Olivier Messiaen), Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

 (Marble Hall), Prague

Prague

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 (Vila Bertramka), St. Petersburg (Philharmonic Hall), Bogotá

Bogotá

Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...

 (Luis Ángel Arango). He is regularly invited to perform at international festivals.

Next to his classical repertoire (emphasis on Mozart, Chopin, Schumann

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

 and Debussy) See Siang Wong has a broad repertoire in contemporary music. He has often performed piano works of contemporary composers like Arnold Schönberg, Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...

, György Ligeti

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

, György Kurtág

György Kurtág

György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...

, Wolfgang Rihm

Wolfgang Rihm

Wolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...

, Peter Eötvös

Peter Eötvös

Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...

, Emmanuel Nunes

Emmanuel Nunes

-Biography:Nunes was born in Lisbon, where he studied composition, first from 1959 to 1963 at the Academia de Amadores de Música with Francine Benoit, and then with Fernando Lopes Graça at the University . He then attended courses at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse , and in 1964 moved to Paris...

, Marco Stroppa

Marco Stroppa

Marco Stroppa is an Italian composer who writes computer music as well as music for instruments with live electronics.-Biography:...

, James Dillon

James Dillon (composer)

James Dillon, born October 29, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland, is a Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school. Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.Honors include...

, Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Harvey (composer)

Jonathan Harvey is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.-Life:...

, Rudolf Kelterborn

Rudolf Kelterborn

Rudolf Kelterborn is a Swiss musician and composer.-Life:Kelterborn studied in Basel, Detmold, Salzburg, and Zürich, among other places, with the composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burkhard, Boris Blacher, Günter Bialas, and Wolfgang Fortner...

. In 2008 he initiated the Project "Swiss Piano", in which he is promoting the creation of new piano works. Many famous and young Swiss composers have contributed to this project already and dedicated piano pieces to him (like Daniel Fueter, Hans Ulrich Lehmann, Laurent Mettraux

Laurent Mettraux

Laurent Mettraux is a composer and organist.-Studies:Mettraux is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Fribourg where he studied music theory with René Oberson, as well as piano, violin, and singing...

, Isabel Mundry

Isabel Mundry

-Biography:Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt...

, Jürg Wyttenbach, Gérard Zinsstag, Alfred Zimmerlin).

On the Decca

Decca Records

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

 Label (Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

) See Siang Wong has released five solo CDs (Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes and Nocturnes, Claude Debussy: Early piano works, Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Schumann: Piano Works, Beethoven: Piano Sonatas). His Chopin, Mozart, Schumann and Schumann/Beethoven "Piano Concertos" (Novalis) Recordings were honoured by Swiss Radio with a "Classic Highlight" Award. Other recordings has been published by Deutsche Grammophon and several "independent" Labels.

See Siang Wong teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2002. He gives Masterclasses in Switzerland and abroad. He is an exclusive Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway , is an American and German manufacturer of handmade pianos, founded 1853 in Manhattan in New York City by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg...

-Artist.

Discography

• LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas: Pathétique / Mondschein / Waldstein / Andante Favori / Für Elise DDD-DECCA 476 3860.
• ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto A-Minor, op. 54 / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 6 op. 61a (Piano Arrangement of the Violin Concerto) NOVALIS 150 194-2
• ROBERT SCHUMANN Papillons Carnaval Kinderszenen Arabeske DDD-DECCA 179 7344
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K467 / LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, op. 37 NOVALIS 150 191-2
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART PIANO SONATAS K283, K330, K331, K570 DECCA 476 6756
• OLIVIER MESSIAEN Oiseaux Exotiques ZHDK-Records-01/08
• EMMANUEL NUNES Litanies du feu et de la mer I & II RUDOLF KELTERBORN Klavierstücke 1-6 GUILD GMCD 7318
• CLAUDE DEBUSSY EARLY PIANO WORKS Arabesques, Rêverie, Ballade, Suite Bergamasque, Pour le Piano, Mazurka, Valse Romantique, Estampes DECCA 476 312-2
• FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN WALTZES & NOCTURNES Grande Valse brillante, Waltz op.34, op. posth. 64 Nr.1 & 2, op. posth. 69 Nr. 1 & 2, op. posth. 70 Nr. 2, Nocturne op.9, op.15, op.37, op.55, op. posth. DECCA 476 307-5
• THE RADIO SWISS CLASSIC COLLECTION VOL. 5 Chopin Nocturnes op.9 Deutsche Grammophon 480 043-0
• THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS ST. PETERSBURG Piano music of Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre FOA-CD1
• THE RADIO SWISS CLASSIC COLLECTION VOL. 4 Debussy Valse Romantique Deutsche Grammophon 442 881-6
• KLASSIEKE MUZIEK Piano music of Joseph Haydn SMA 97-01
• SOLO VOOR EEN KIND Mozart: Piano concerto No. 8, KV 248 ROSE RECORDS RCD F24
• JAZZ MEETS IMPRESSIONISM Works for flute and piano by Astor Piazzolla, George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Luiz Bonfa, Carl Nielsen, Mike Mower Duo Oblivion 001
• GIOACCHINO ROSSINI PETITE MESSE SOLONELLE Liverpool Records DMR 638-1
• DER WEIHNACHTSABEND (Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens) Graham F. Valentine, Sprechtheater (2003)
• NELLO SANTI Piano Works of Hans von Bülow Kranich Verlag, Zürich ISBN 3-909194-6-0

External links

Official website of See Siang Wong: http://www.seesiangwong.com
Swiss Piano: http://www.swisspiano.org