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Ke\u2019er (Coco) Wang<\/strong> was born in Mianyang, China. She began her musical study at the age of 5.  In 2005, Ke\u2019er entered Affiliated High School of Sichuan Conservatory and had various teachers on her path of piano study including Dr. Chenggang Yang and Dr. Jingyuan Zhang from Sichuan Conservatory of Music, Prof. Jun Yang from Central Conservatory of Music. Ke\u2019er studied with Dr. Washington Garcia at Texas State University when she first came to U.S and received her bachelor\u2019s degree under Dr. Joseph Rackers at University of South Carolina.  She received her master\u2019s degree in Piano Performance and Literature under Dr. Marina Lomazov at the Eastman School of Music. She is now pursuing her Doctoral degree in Piano performance and Literature under both Dr. Marina Lomazov and Dr. Joseph Rackers at the Eastman School of Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ke\u2019er had her public debut at age 16 years old at Concert Hall of Sichuan Chengdu, China. Since then, she earned various prizes at different competitions throughout the world, such as the first prize of National Dance, Vocal, and Instrumental Competition in Beijing; first prize in the 4th ZhongXin International Piano Competition in Singapore, second prize in the 2014 Rose Petroff Competition in the U.S and first prize in the 2016 Concerto & Aria Competition at USC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides being awarded in competitions frequently, Ke\u2019er was also invited by the governor of Xishuangbanna to take part in one of the largest music festivals in South China, for New Year 1376 in Dai Calendar.  During this event, a joint recital at the main college in Xishuangbanna was performed by Ke\u2019er and Dr. Washington Garcia as guest artist of the festival.  She was also selected as soloist to perform with University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Williamsburg Symphonic Orchestra and Virtuosi Brunenses Orchestra, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While pursuing her piano study in the U.S, Ke\u2019er received multiple scholarships both from universities and individuals. Ke\u2019er was given annual scholarship by the Rose Petroff Foundation, Adele H. & Theodore D. Woolsey Endowment music scholarship.  Ke\u2019er has achieved high academic achievement as well as she was honored the 2015 Presser Scholar and grant recipient by the Presser Music Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, Ke\u2019er and Zehao Bai together created the Miaomiao Piano Festival in Wuhai, China to be the best piano festival for pre-college young pianists of the area. She is Teaching Assistant of Class Piano Program and Studio Assistant of Dr. Marina Lomazov and Dr. Joseph Rackers\u2019 studio.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":27761,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faculty-category":[],"faculty-instrument":[155],"faculty-department":[145],"faculty-ensemble":[4216],"faculty-type":[2226],"faculty-tag":[],"class_list":["post-27430","ecms-faculty","type-ecms-faculty","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-instrument-piano","faculty-department-piano-keyboard-organ","faculty-ensemble-keyboard-explorations-1","faculty-type-director"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/files\/Keer-Wang-edited.jpg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/author\/kristijan-bogdanovski\/","display_name":"Kristijan Bogdanovski"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 months ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 23, 2025","modified":"Updated on October 10, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 23, 2025 10:00 AM","modified":"Updated on October 10, 2025 11:45 AM"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"faculty-category":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-category","name":"ECMS Faculty Categories"},"faculty-instrument":{"linked":["Piano<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Piano<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-instrument","name":"ECMS Faculty Instruments"},"faculty-department":{"linked":["Piano, Keyboard & Organ<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Piano, Keyboard & Organ<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-department","name":"ECMS Faculty Departments"},"faculty-ensemble":{"linked":["Keyboard Explorations 1<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Keyboard Explorations 1<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-ensemble","name":"ECMS Faculty Ensembles"},"faculty-type":{"linked":["Director<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Director<\/span>"],"slug":"faculty-type","name":"ECMS Faculty Types"},"faculty-tag":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"faculty-tag","name":"ECMS Faculty Tags"}},"series_order":"","mfb_rest_fields":["title","author","featured_img","coauthors","author_meta","relative_dates","absolute_dates","absolute_dates_time","featured_img_caption","tax_additional","series_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/27430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ecms-faculty"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/27430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33682,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ecms-faculty\/27430\/revisions\/33682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faculty-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-category?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-instrument?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-department?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-ensemble","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-ensemble?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-type?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"faculty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-tag?post=27430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}