As the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Heidelberger described, "Shijun Wang is a fascinating, serious and sensitive musician" As a solo pianist and orchestral soloist, Shijun Wang has performed in California, New York, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, Utah, Connecticut, New Jersey, as well as Germany, Spain France, Norway, China, Mexico, and Japan. He also serves as piano faculty in the East/West International Piano Festival, which is held each summer in China. He had performed with Lafayette Symphony, Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Evening Stars Orchestra; Duxbury Music Festival Orchestra; Manhattan Chamber Orchestra; Music Academy of the West Orchestra.
He has won many national and international prizes of piano performances, including the Excellence Award in the 65th Steinway Children and Young pianist Competition 2002. He subsequently won the Excellence award of the 8th Germany Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists in 2002. The same year he won the Bronze medal at the Hong Kong Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. In 2008, he won the fifth prize in the Hamamatsu Piano Academy Competition. In 2010, he won the first prize and the audience prize in Crescendo Piano Competition.
Professor Wang started teaching at Weber State University in 2015. He received he Bachelor of Musuc and Masters of Music degrees at The Juilliard School studied with Oxana Yablonskaya and Joseph Kalichstein and Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Eastman school of music studied with Nelita True. His mentors have included Thomas Schumacher, Dan-Wen Wei, Alfred Brendel, Emanuel Ax, and Richard Goode.