Who: Angela Wang
Film Score
Dedicated to honoring past musical traditions while forging new ones, Angela Wang is a multi-faceted artist who applies her technical and creative skills in genres such as jazz, rock, contemporary classical, and alternative. A classically trained pianist and composer, she brings a passion for excellence, authenticity, and originality into artistic collaborations that produce cross-genre, multimedia projects and novel musical offerings. Along with her experience and training in production, performance, jazz music, and film scoring, Angela has led ensembles, taught courses, and provided individual instruction within collegiate and private studio settings. She is currently the artistic director of “A Story of an Island (Taiwan)” and “Connecting Island Arts (USA)” Her musical works are performed across the globe, she collaborates with artists from the United States and her home country Taiwan and creates multi-disciplinary works every year. In recent years, she has been focusing on creating work that combines music and dance. Angela has composed, performed, and produced original music for albums such as: Obsession: Live at Umay Theater Taipei (2024), Allure (2022), Metamorphosis (2021), Prayer (2021), Time of Lost (2020), A Story of an Island (2019), Journey (2013), and Love Is (2010). Her work in composition and arranging includes scores for multiple commercials and films, including The Final Sutter (2012) which received a screening at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Over the course of her career, Angela has collaborated with artists like photographer Von Taipei (Taiwan), choreographer Lindsey McGill (Houston), Sylvana Cecilia Tapia (NYC), and cinematographer and playwright Jessica Wang (Taiwan), AGT finalist Christina Wells, (Houston). She has joined Michele Brangwen Dance & Music Ensemble (Houston/ NYC), performs voice, keyboard and dance. Angela earned her Master of Music degree from New York University in Composition for Film and holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Berklee College of Music in Contemporary Writing & Music Production and Piano Performance. Prior to her musical career, she completed a Bachelor of Architecture, exercising her visual creativity and building the foundation for the collaborations that now pervade her career.