Hanbo Wang is quickly emerging as a distinguished violinist, violist, and conductor, active as both a soloist and chamber musician. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) at Stony Brook University, studying with renowned violinist Arnaud Sussmann and the legendary Emerson String Quartet. He completed his master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and his bachelor’s degree at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

In 2024, Hanbo founded the Rhodora Quartet under the Emerson String Quartet Institute at Stony Brook. The ensemble quickly developed into a professional group and won the 2025 Ackerman Chamber Music Competition. They were praised by the Emerson Quartet as “a very matured quartet with great potential.” Previously, he founded the Duke Quartet in Beijing in 2018, which received First Prize with full marks at the China-Germany Youth Music Competition (Hummingbird Music Award) and later won Second Prize at the Futian International String Competition in 2020. The Juilliard Quartet has described the group as “a very high-level, promising young quartet.”

As a soloist, Hanbo received First Prize and the Best Bach Performance Award at the 2021 International Best Bach Performance Music Competition. He was also awarded the Excellent Prize in the Violin Group C at the 2018 American International Music Competition, and Third Prize at the 2017 Qingyuan International Arts Festival.

Hanbo served as concertmaster of the Youth Orchestra of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 2019 to 2021. As a conductor, he led both the string ensemble and youth orchestra at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 2022 to 2023. In 2024, he successfully conducted Handel’s Messiah with the Stony Brook University Orchestra, and in 2025 led a critically acclaimed contemporary chamber music concert.