Bio
“In a class of its own.”
Tianyu Wang is Principal Trumpet of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Invited by Karina Canellakis, he has appeared as Guest Principal Trumpet with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he was a fellow in 2023, and two summers, 2024 and 2025, at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, where in 2024 he played principal trumpet in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 under Manfred Honeck at Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
As a soloist, Tianyu performed Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with the Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra at 14, and has since played Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 at the Seven Hills Chamber Music Festival. On period instruments, he has played principal trumpet in a Tafelmusik side-by-side and has performed with Les Arts Florissants, the Sebastians, the American Classical Orchestra and New York Baroque Incorporated. He has toured England and Scotland in Bach’s Mass in B minor, and Italy in Haydn’s The Creation.
A native of Beijing, Tianyu earned his Bachelor of Music at The Juilliard School, where he is completing his Master of Music, studying with Raymond Mase and Christopher Martin. There, he premiered David Serkin Ludwig’s Fanfare for the Future, written to celebrate the school’s campaign to become tuition-free. He is a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, which has supported all six years of his studies. He is based in New York.
Fine.
“From the first bars of the opening movement, the trumpet was already in a class of its own — enough to make a professional orchestra go pale.”
“The final chorus, ‘Dona nobis pacem’, started quietly as if beamed in from a distant planet, with a gradual crescendo and stratospheric trumpets, reaching a golden splendour on the final ‘pacem’.”
“Juilliard415 produced a warm string sound, characterful woodwind solos and clean trumpet playing, never intrusive yet adding vital brilliance.”
“The big set pieces were indeed memorable, the double choir going full tilt in the Osanna with the three trumpets blazing, and the final Dona nobis pacem gloriously radiant.”
