Kang Wang

Kang Wang is an Australian-Chinese operatic tenor who has established an international career particularly in roles such as Rodolfo in La bohème and Alfredo in La traviata. He is a former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera and a finalist in the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Born in Harbin, China in 1988, Kang Wang is the son of two professional opera singers. Kang moved to Australia as a teenager and completed a Bachelor degree in Information Technology. After working as a programmer for three years in Darwin, Australia, he left his job and moved to Brisbane to complete his Master of Music Studies at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and gained his International Artist Diploma in Opera at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK. After gaining his degrees, he joined the "OperAvenir" program at Theater Basel in Switzerland, then the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program of the Metropolitan Opera the following year.