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Felix Wang is the cellist of the Blair String Quartet and Assistant Professor of Cello at Vanderbilt University. He has won several competitions, including the Richardson String Award and the National Society of Arts and Letters Cello Competition, where he appeared with the Phoenix Symphony. Judges included Mstislav Rostropovich, Raya Garbousova and Laszlo Varga. Mr. Wang was also a recipient of the prestigious Frank Huntington Beebe Grant for study abroad, using it to study in London with William Pleeth.

He has performed throughout the United States and Canada as a chamber musician, soloist, and in recital. This summer, he will be performing at the Roycroft Chamber Music Festival in East Aurora, New York, the Strings in the Mountains Festival in Steamboat Springs, teaching at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Rocky Mountain Summer Conservatory, and joining the American Sinfonietta in Bellingham, Washington.

Mr. Wang is currently the co-principal cellist of the Iris Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Michael Stern, and is a frequent substitute with the Detroit and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras. Felix Wang received a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Music from the Peabody Institute. His teachers have included Erling Blondal Bengtsson, Laurence Lesser, Stephen Kates, Jeffrey Solow and Louis Potter, Jr.

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