Seventeen-year-old pianist Ryan Wang, from Vancouver, Canada, is the winner of BBC Young Musician 2024. Wang started playing piano aged four and was only five when he performed his first solo recital at Carnegie Hall. He received his Artist Diploma at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in France in May 2024, being the youngest ever to win the Prix Cortot.
Other recent highlights include being in the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s New Generation Piano series 2022-2023, and receiving the First Prize and audience award in the 18th Animato International Chopin Competition in February 2024.
