Cellist Ray Wang returns for PPO's March concert

Cellist Ray Wang

Cellist Ray Wang returns once again and joins the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra and music director/principal conductor Maestro Yoshikazu Fukumura at their upcoming season concert happening on March 15, 2019, 8:00 PM at the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo. 

The music lined up for this evening includes Toshiro Mayuzumi’s Bacchanale, Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 with Wang as the soloist, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64.  This upcoming performance will be Wang's third time to perform with the PPO.

An international cellist and music professor, Ray Wang has performed in different cities in Asia, North America and Europe. Ray has performed as soloist with conductors and orchestras such as Yoshikazu Fukumura, Yang Yang, Krysztof Penderecki, Macau Orchestra, Soloistas de La Habana. Cellistra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Manila Philharmonic Orchestra and the Guang Zhou Symphony Orchestra.

Ray currently serves as Head of Junior Music Department and Senior Lecturer in Strings at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and also serves as a music faculty member of the Baptist University and Chinese University of Hong Kong.