Ziying Wang

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, and scholar Ziying Wang began her musical journey at the age of 4 by learning the Chinese instrument guzheng. At age 6, she started piano lessons, and by age 10, she started the violin. At age 17, she entered Xi'an Conservatory of Music as a voice major. She recently graduated with her Master of Arts in Music from Durham University and is currently a Master of Music candidate in Musicology at King’s College London.

Ziying’s initial research experience began with her bachelor’s studies, where she wrote about children’s talent and the effects of vocal works on cats and adolescents. During her master’s at Durham, her research experience was mainly performance-oriented, writing papers regarding the practice of Baroque ornamentations, the emotional expression for Lieder, the global history of opera, and 18th- and 19th-century performance practice. During her master’s at KCL, she wrote about language and musicology, immigration, sound walk, and article reviews.

Aside from all the research work from the degrees, she has participated in numerous seminars outside of school ranging from topics in European opera, media psychology, sociology, and psychiatry in 2023. These seminars were taught by professors from renowned universities such as Cambridge, MIT, and Columbia.

At the end of 2023, her 2 papers on Wagner were accepted by the 2nd Int’l Conference on Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies, the 2024 4th International Conference on Arts, Law and Social Sciences, and her paper on gender inequality of a Japanese opera company was accepted by the 2024 2nd International Conference on Psychological Science and Higher Education.