Violinist Gunnery Sergeant Foster Wang of Douglaston, N.Y., joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Chamber Orchestra in August 2016.

Gunnery Sgt. Wang began his musical instruction at age 4. Upon graduating in 2006 from Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, N.Y., he earned a bachelor’s degree in music in 2010 from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where he studied privately with Lynn Chang. In 2012, he earned his master’s degree in violin performance at The Juilliard School in New York, where he studied with David Chan, concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Staff Sgt. Wang has also studied with Rafail Sobolevsky and Naoko Tanaka.

Prior to joining “The President’s Own,” Gunnery Sgt. Wang performed as a fellow with the New World Symphony in Miami from 2012-16. In addition, he took part in the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra in Germany and the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado.

With the orchestra, Gunnery Sgt. Wang performs regularly at White House State Dinners, receptions, and other functions and appears with the Marine Chamber Orchestra in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.