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With more than 50 restaurants in walking distance to theaters, the Cultural District offers a wide variety of dining options to satisfy your personal tastes and budget. Enjoying a relaxing meal before a show or capping off the evening with cocktails and dessert add to a pleasurable experience in the Cultural District.

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A Pittsburgh Cultural District-wide gift card can be used to purchase tickets for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust events as well as any event taking place in the Cultural District. With so many exciting shows, concerts, and exhibitions, there is truly something for everyone!

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Xinyang Wang

Born in Guangyuan (ancient Lizhou), Sichuan, China, in 1989, Xinyang Wang studied composition at Sichuan Conservatory of Music (2007-2012), where he earned his bachelor's degree studying with Yingzhong Chang. He completed his Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music in the studio of Reiko Füting.

 

Wang's prodigious musical output as an undergraduate included 24 preludes and fugues and 60 etudes for piano, 12 string quartets, 13 symphonic works and many other chamber pieces. He was the recipient of the National Scholarship of China for two consecutive years and was voted the Excellent Graduate of Sichuan Province in 2012; in the same year his work Lizhou II for piano solo and string orchestra was one of the winning pieces in the Gold Medal Awards of China. He also won first prize in the Third Rivers Awards Competition in Shanghai in both composition and performance in 2011.

In summer 2012, as one of 20 young composers and musicologists from all over the world, Wang was invited by the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna to participate in a seminar on composition and Schoenberg. During this time, he worked with a number of distinguished composers, conductors and musicologists, including Rene Staar, Severine Neff, Zubin Mehta, Helmut Lachenmann, Müller Siemens and Christian Meyer.

Works commissioned from Xinyang Wang include Fantasia for percussion sextet; Lizhou I for piano duo; Variation for percussion quintet; Three Songs for soprano and orchestra; Chamber Prelude for septet; Capriccio in One Movement II for Chinese Zither (Zheng) and percussion duet; and Yao for Chinese zither and piano.