Lucas Wong

As Assistant Professor of Piano at Soochow University School of Music in China, pianist Lucas Wong is earning a diversified career as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, pedagogue, and repetiteur. His keyboard repertoire stretches over six centuries, including works for harpsichord, piano, and extended keyboard techniques. As a dedicated teacher, he also contributes regularly in editing for university publishing press, scholarly writing, adjudication, and leading research in computer algorithm for piano reduction technique. He has performed in Seoul Sejong Center, Shanghai Conservatory He Luting Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York Steinway Hall, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and the Banff Centre, to name a few. As a vocal pianist and assistant conductor, he has been on the roster of the New York City Opera, Opera America, the Opera Theater of Connecticut, and the Hugo Kauder Society. Wong has been a guest lecturer on Debussy at the Juilliard School, and has given masterclasses and performances at the 2009 Shanghai International Piano Festival, and as well as other institutions, such as Peking University, Seoul National University, and the Xinghai Conservatory and Pre-College Division. Wong is the Artistic Director of Liederfest in Suzhou, an unprecedented intensive art song festival in China.