While a student at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he was featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary film, From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China.

[2] In 1985, with Mr Stern's support, he entered the Yale School of Music under a special programme where he studied with the renowned cellist Aldo Parisot.

He has also collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Neeme Järvi, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Myung-whun Chung, Alan Gilbert and Gustavo Dudamel.

[5] Wang has recorded numerous albums, his latest release being the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

As an exclusive artist for Deutsche Grammophon, he has recorded among others, the complete Bach Cello Suites, the Brahms Double Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado and Gil Shaham, a Baroque Album with Camerata Salzburg, the Haydn Cello Concertos with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Muhai Tang, and chamber music by Brahms, Mozart and Schumann with Maria João Pires and Augustin Dumay.