Wang Yijing is a young Erhu musician, associate Erhu professor of the Department of Traditional Music and head of String Music Teaching and Research Office at Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Wang received an MA in Erhu from the Central Conservatory of Music. She’s a member of Erhu Professional Committee at China Nationalities Orchestra Society and a council member of Guangdong Musicians Association.
Wang started studying Erhu at age 7, under famous teacher Liu Yian and in 1999 she enrolled in the Department of Traditional Music of Central Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Professor Zhao Hanyang. She has performed in concert with the Austrian Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Zhujiang Movie Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Macau Chinese Orchestra, Guangdong National Orchestra of China, Guangdong Traditional Music Philharmonic, either as soloist or leading musician. She is often invited for recordings at Elegance Chinese Music, a Beijing Music Radio programme.
Since 2006, she has played at several solo erhu concerts in Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan and has released, in DVD, The Butterfly Lovers and Art Mirrors as well as Hi-Fi CD Erhu Caprice. Besides these three solo albums, her records are included in the Live Again 100 CDs, a collection by the China Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wang has been featured in major music publications like Chinese Music Realm, Music Instruments, and China Music Newspaper. In 2012, she cooperated with famous conductor Yu Long in the premiere of Beijing Opera Symphony Drunken Concubine. She hosted her first Beijing Opera and Erhu concert at Beijing Concert Hall, which was widely reported by CCTV News, Beijing TV, and Beijing Daily.
She has performed for national leaders like Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Li Lanqing, Li Changchun, and former French president Jacques Chirac and has toured in America, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, always receiving great acclaim. Her students have won several national and international music competitions and she has published more than a dozen articles on major academic journals as well as manuals on jinghu (a type of huqin/erhu).