Ying Wang is a composer. She lives and works in Berlin. She completed her composition studies with York Höller, Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schöllhorn and she studied electronic composition with Michael Beil and attended courses at IRCAM. She is currently working on her music theatre piece ‘Lorry 39’ for the Theater Freiburg and the SWR Experimentalstudio. The impetus for this work was the tragic death of 39 people in a freight container.

In her compositions, Ying Wang deals with topics such as environmental pollution, global social grievances, political persecution and our ambivalent relationship with technology. During her studies in Cologne, she was already able to establish herself as a composer who stands for advanced, critically framed chamber and orchestral music. Her original home in Shanghai and Beijing and her new home in Berlin form a contrast that is reflected thematically and musically in her works. In her work, she constantly seeks new interfaces with other media and arts, such as dance, video, digital art, light, visual art and performance.

According to her own statement, Ying Wang lives her identity as a contemporary composer from China with a keen and critical eye on the entanglements of politics, culture, society and technology. She is looking for "a contrasting combination of my three major tools: the traditional instruments of European music and their exrended techniques, the critical examination of my Chinese heritage and the current possibilities of electronics".