Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang was born 1983 and is a native of Taiwan. She began her musical training on piano and violin at the age of four, and started composing at the age of twelve. Ashley’s works have been performed in the US, Europe and Asia by various ensembles and performers such as the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, who tour with Yo-Yo Ma in his Silkroad Ensemble, pianist Jenny Q Chai, among others. Her works have been performed at venues such as the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Stone, The Gershwin Hotel, John C. Borden Auditorium, Greenfield Hall at the Manhattan School of Music, the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference at the Georgia State University's Kopleff Recital
Hall in Atlanta, Tutti New Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, The Logos Foundation in Belgium, The Italian Web Radio TEM Taukay Edizioni Musicali, Forum Music Hall, Soo-Chow University Concert Hall, and the Bach Hall in Taiwan, and have been conducted by famous conductors such as David Gilbert, Brad Lubman and Paul Chiang. She also performs as a pianist, studying piano under Lisa Moore.
Ashley received the 2nd prize in the Award of Literature and Art Competition held by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education in 2008, the 2007 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival fellowship from the ASCAP Foundation, and was awarded the honorable mention from the National Association of Composers USA in the 2006 Young composers' competition. She also has participate in master classes with noted composers such as Fabien Lévy, David Lang, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, and Fabian Muller. Ashley
holds a Bachelor of Art degree in composition from SooChow University
and a Master of Music degree in composition at
the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include Philipp Blume, Nils Vigeland, Michael Hersch, Richard Danielpour, Gordon Shi-Wen Chin, and Wan-Chen Huang.
Ashley is currently a doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she studies with Stephen Taylor.