Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Selected Student Bios

Owen Wang

Owen Wang (Hsi-wen Wang) is a promising composer from Taiwan. Coming from a unique  background as an International Politics major, a second lieutenant platoon leader, a trader associate, and a rock guitarist, his composition style is a hybrid of rock, jazz, blues and the orchestral tradition.  

Since launching his career as a full-time composer in 2007, he has scored a variety of productions, including five dramas for the theater, three films for television, two documentaries, a dance concert, and several commercials. In addition, he has produced three original theater soundtracks http://blog.urmoco.com/cstr_chicken/

Owen is a student of NYU Steinhardt faculty member, Dr. Joseph Church, under whose guidance he began writing a three-hour original Chinese musical MULAN, http://www.wretch.cc/blog/mulanNTU. The show was presented in its entirety, accompanied by a 23-piece orchestra, to sold-out audiences in June 2009, in Taipei. Owen's MULAN received wide and very positive reviews in the National Press as a successful Chinese-language musical.

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