Zitong Wang
Zitong Wang is a Chinese classical pianist. She was the third prize winner at the XIX International Chopin Piano Competition in 2025, where she also received the Krystian Zimerman Award for the best performance of a Sonata.
Early life and education
Wang was born on 3 February 1999. She made her solo recital debut at the age of 13 at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. That same year, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Meng-Chieh Liu and Eleanor Sokoloff. Wang graduated from Curtis in 2022. She later studied with Vietnamese-Canadian pianist Dang Thai Son at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.Career
Wang has won first prize in several international piano competitions, including the Rosalyn Tureck Bach Competition in New York in 2010 where she won a Rosalyn Tureck Prize, the Princeton International Piano Competition in 2020, and the International Piano Competition in Ferrol, Spain, in 2022. In 2023, she was awarded sixth prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano.In October 2025, Wang achieved third prize at the XIX International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In addition to her main prize, she was awarded the Krystian Zimerman Award for the best performance of a Sonata during the competition. Wang also competed in the prior 2021 edition of the competition, the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition, where she advanced to Stage I.