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Smee Wang
Smee Wang started playing the piano at the age of four. In 2003, with top music major scores for the entrance exam, Smee was admitted into the Composition Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. As a conservatory student, Smee was invited twice as the guest composer to the Beijing Modern Music Festival. Throughout his academic career, Smee has continued scholarship with articles published in top-level journals: Art Review and Journal of Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Smee Wang was awarded in The Symposium 2010 of 4th Annual Meeting of China Music Review Society. In 2014, he completed a Master’s degree in vocal jazz performance at the University of Denver, and in 2021 earned his Ph.D. in composition at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM). His academic work during graduate school involved translating Norman Lebrecht’s Who killed classical music? from English to Chinese for CITIC Press Group – publication for this translation is pending. He taught at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and served as the general manager at UHM’s radio station KTUH. After his tenure at the Umpqua Community College as a music instructor, Smee currently teaches at Lehman College, CUNY as a lecturer in Music Theory, Music History, and Interdisciplinary Music Studies.