An-Ming Wang


An-Ming Wang is the pen name of Chinese-American composer and pianist Marion Wang Mak.

Biography

Wang was born in Shanghai to Cheng Hsu and Eling Wang. Both of her parents were educated in the United States. Her mother majored in music at Wellesley College, where she studied piano. Although Wang grew up in China, her parents exposed her to Western music throughout her childhood.
Wang holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Central China University. She immigrated to the United States in 1948, then received a Bachelor of Music degree  rom Wesleyan Conservatory and a Master of Arts degree in music education from Columbia University. She also studied at the Juilliard School. She married William Mak.
Wang's compositions have received awards from the National League of American Pen Women and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. She has also received a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her works have been performed in Washington, D.C. at the White House, the John F. [Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts], the National Gallery of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well as at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and the Spoleto Music Festival in Charleston, South Carolina.
Wang is a member of ASCAP, Friday Morning Music Club, International Alliance for Women in Music, National Federation of Music Clubs, National League of American Pen Women, Sigma Alpha Iota; and the Southeastern Composers League. Her music has been published by Hildegarde Publishing.

Compositions

Wang's compositions include:

Chamber

Dialogue
East Wind
Jestures
Kapalua
Octet
Promenade
Scenes from Pingchow
Solemn Silhouettes
Sonata for violin and piano
''Suite for Flute, Clarinet and Piano''

Opera

Lan Ying

Orchestra

Homeless Child
Introduction and Allegro
Symphonic Projections

Piano/organ

Arabesque
Concerto
Dance Chinois
Fantasy for Solo Organ Vivace Press, 2001.
Interludes
Mahjong Suite
Mystic Moments, for organ
Petite Valse
Soundings for Organ
''Toccata''

Vocal

Agnus Dei
Anna Meets Baby Jesus
Autumn Leaves
"Autumn Winds"
Chinese Lullaby
Christmas Gift
"Come My Love"
"Dazzling Jewels"
Fairy Hill Upon the Void Obscure
Gloria
God Created People
Hundred Loves
"In Eternal Wedlock Bliss"
In Paradisum
Introit
"Kyrie"
Let All the World in Every Corner Sing
Libera Me
Life's Dreary Gloom
"Little Yellow Bird"
Lux Aeterna
Mary's Lullaby
"Nightingale"
Nights of Spring
"O Glorious Morn"
O Praise the Lord
Offertoire
"Pie Jesu"
Rain of Night
Requiem
Sanctus
"Sky"
"Song of Endless Sorrow"
"Songs for All Seasons"
"Spring Rain"
War's Alarms