As an avid solo, chamber & orchestral musician, Taiwanese-American cellist Jenna Wang has performed in venues such as Orford Musique, Tanglewood, Festival Napa Valley, Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Brucker Hall, Strathmore Hall, Taiwanese, Royal Dutch and Mexican Embassies, the National Geographic Society, U.S. Capitol Russell Senate Building, the Pentagon, Cutler Majestic Theater, Harvard Sanders Theater, Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, and Carnegie Hall.

She now regularly performs with chamber ensembles and orchestras in the Boston area and teaches cello privately. As a chamber musician, she has played for the Emerson, Aeolus, Borromeo, St. Lawrence, and Muir String Quartets. As an orchestral musician, she has performed under the baton of Teddy Abrams, Bramwell Tovey, Jayce Ogren, James Ross, Joshua Gersen, and Christoph Eschenbach.

Some honors include performing in a select string quartet for 2021 Beethoven Symposium Seminar, presented by Jeremy Yudkin and Lewis Lockwood through Center for Beethoven Research, Casals Festival through Celebrity Series of Boston, alongside renowned cellists including Blaise Dejardin, Lluis Claret, Nicholas Tzavaras, Yeesun Kim and Mike Block, NASA’s Sally Ride Tribune at the Kennedy Center, playing in the debut of “Guajira Porteña” with Latin Grammy Award-winning composer César Orozco, and recording the soundtrack of the movie “中山魂” (“Dr. Sun”) that was nominated for “Best Animated Feature” in the 2020 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. She has been first prizewinner of competitions such as Joseph and Goldie B. Feder Memorial Strings Competition and Misbin Family Memorial Chamber Competition through Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS), Young Artist Award Solo Competition at Gaithersburg Arts Barn, University of Michigan CSS Solo Competition, U.S. Army Orchestra Young Artists, and featured on WETA Classical 90.9 Radio with Deb Lamberton. Jenna has also been a Teaching Artist and substitute Orchestra Director at Boston Music Project (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization), Sectional Coach for Boston University’s All-Campus Orchestra, and cello instructor/chamber music coach through El Sistema, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras’ Summer Strings at Strathmore.

On the arts administration side, Jenna is also currently working as Administrative Assistant at Boston University School of Music and has previously worked as Graduate Assistant and interim Admissions Coordinator there as well as orchestra manager of Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO). She believes in her work bridging classical music and support for institutional arts administration.

Growing up in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, Jenna began cello studies at age 4 and was principal cellist of the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras (MCYO). She studied with Michael Mermagen and Mark Evans of the National Symphony under NSO’s Youth Fellowship Program at the Kennedy Center, and previously with Laurien Laufman, Alison Bazala Kim, Caroline Kang, and Lucasz Szyrner. In 2015, she made her Carnegie Hall solo debut at Weill Hall and, later on, chamber debut there with her Bellavoce Quartet in 2016. She has played in masterclasses for artists such as Jeffrey Solow, Fred Sherry, Aaron Rosand, Amit Peled, David Teie, Lluis Claret, Priscilla Kim, Amir Eldan, Natasha Brofsky, Steve Doane, Christopher Costanza, Alan Harris, Michel Strauss, and Lynn Harrell.

Jenna holds both her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Performance degrees from Boston University, where she studied with Michael Reynolds of the Grammy Award-winning Muir Quartet on full merit scholarship and was mentored by Mihail Jojatu of the Boston Symphony in orchestral techniques.

In her free time, Jenna is a foodie, enjoys cooking for loved ones, trying new restaurants, going to concerts, hiking, travel and photography for fun.