{"id":110053,"date":"2024-05-20T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=profile&p=110053"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:03:14","slug":"jenna-wang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/jenna-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenna Wang<\/strong> is the Administrative Assistant for Boston University College of Fine Arts’ School of Music. As BU is her alma mater, she takes pride in being a double Terrier and, caring deeply for the faculty, staff, and students of BU, is eager to support them and further BU School of Music’s vision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Classically trained as a cellist, Jenna has performed in venues such as Orford Musique, Tanglewood, Festival Napa Valley, Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Brucker Hall, Strathmore Hall, Taiwanese, Royal Dutch and Mexican Embassies, the National Geographic Society, U.S. Capitol Russell Senate Building, the Pentagon, Cutler Majestic Theater, Harvard Sanders Theater, Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, and Carnegie Hall. She regularly performs with chamber ensembles and orchestras in the Boston area and teaches cello privately. In the Boston area, Jenna has been principal of the Boston Civic Symphony, Apollo Ensemble, New Bedford Symphony, Cape Ann Symphony, among others. As an orchestral musician, she has performed under the baton of Teddy Abrams, Bramwell Tovey, Jayce Ogren, James Ross, Joshua Gersen, and Christoph Eschenbach. Some honors include performing in a select string quartet for 2021 Beethoven Symposium Seminar, presented by Jeremy Yudkin and Lewis Lockwood through Center for Beethoven Research, Casals Festival through Celebrity Series of Boston, alongside renowned cellists including Blaise Dejardin, Lluis Claret, Nicholas Tzavaras, Yeesun Kim and Mike Block, NASA\u2019s Sally Ride Tribune at the Kennedy Center, and recording the soundtrack of the movie \u201c\u4e2d\u5c71\u9b42\u201d (\u201cDr. Sun\u201d) that was nominated for \u201cBest Animated Feature\u201d in the 2020 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. She has been first prizewinner of competitions such as Joseph and Goldie B. Feder Memorial String and Misbin Family Memorial Chamber Competitions through Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS), University of Michigan CSS Solo Competition, U.S. Army Orchestra Young Artists, and featured on WETA Classical 90.9 Radio with Deb Lamberton. Jenna has also been a Teaching Artist at Boston Music Project (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization), Sectional Coach for Boston University’s All-Campus Orchestra, and cello instructor\/chamber music coach through El Sistema and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. On the arts administration side, Jenna has worked as orchestra manager of Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and in the Boston University School of Music Office of Admissions as Graduate Assistant and interim Admissions Coordinator.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jenna holds both her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Performance degrees from Boston University, where she studied with Michael Reynolds of the Muir Quartet on full merit scholarship and was mentored by Mihail Jojatu of the Boston Symphony in orchestral techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her free time, Jenna is a foodie, enjoys cooking for loved ones, trying new restaurants, going to concerts, hiking, travel and photography for fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23679,"template":"","bu_progs_degree-option":[25],"dicipline":[125],"school":[133],"unit":[],"program":[],"position":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/110053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23679"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/110053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131684,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/110053\/revisions\/131684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu_progs_degree-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_progs_degree-option?post=110053"},{"taxonomy":"dicipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dicipline?post=110053"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=110053"},{"taxonomy":"unit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit?post=110053"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=110053"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=110053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}