ORCHESTRA

Bob Haoyu Wang, a versatile music artist based in LA and Taiwan, excels in clarinet performance, composing, arranging, and concert production.

Born in Taiwan in 2000, Bob Wang is currently an arranger and artistic administration intern at Mission Opera in Los Angeles, a collaborating artist with Story Path Music Co. Ltd., and a consultant for The 8rass Brass Ensemble and the Taijiang Wind Band. He has served as president, concertmaster, and assistant conductor of the Tainan Alumni Band, concertmaster and resident arranger of the China Youth Corps Wind Orchestra, and concertmaster of the Taijiang Wind Orchestra.

From 2019 to 2023, as president of the Tainan Alumni Band, he produced major concerts, including the centennial celebration of Tainan First Senior High School and the band’s 30th anniversary concert. The band has performed at venues like the National Concert Hall and Weiwuying National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts. He explored new possibilities in wind orchestra performances by integrating theatrical lighting, costume design, literature, new compositions, and choir. His wind orchestra piece “Light of Ripples" premiered at the band's 30th-anniversary concert.

Bob Wang's works have been premiered by musicians such as Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Stanley, Andrew McIntosh, Wendy Richman, Mattie Barbier, and Alen Fogle. He has collaborated in chamber music with musicians like Jonathan Stanley, Daniel Newman-Lessler, Simone Maura,

and Grace Dashnaw.

He is pursuing a Master's degree in Performer-Composer at the California Institute of the Arts. He studies composition, clarinet, and conducting, and is the first Taiwanese admitted to this major. At CalArts, he founded the CalArts Chamber Orchestra and conducted its premiere of his orchestra work “Ripples of Life”.

He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Music from the National Taiwan University of Arts, receiving the highest scholarship in the Wind and Percussion division for two consecutive years and winning first prize in the university’s chamber music competition. His graduation recital, "Islands of the Hearts," which combined classical music, stage design, lighting, literature, and photography, received high praise and helped him enter CalArts.

Bob Wang studies theoretical composition under Prof. Wolfgang von Schweinitz and Prof. Karen Tanaka. His clarinet studies are under Prof. Phil O’Conner, with previous studies under Professors Chiaohui Yang and Shu-Yuan Hsueh. His music has been deeply influenced by Professor Peiyao Wang, and his conducting studies are under Prof. Nicholas Deyoe.