Yilin Wang

Yilin Wang is an award-winning composer, sound designer, and audio engineer whose work centers on acoustic and electroacoustic music as well as immersive 3D sound production. In addition to her music career, Yilin is interested in visual arts, including exploring interactive visual design and graphic design. Yilin earned a Bachelor of Arts in Musicology from Hunan Normal University(China) and a Master of Arts in Music Technology from the University of York(UK). Since 2024, Yilin has been pursuing a research-based Master of Music in Music Composition at Western University(Canada), supported by the Don Wright Graduate Entrance Award and Western Graduate Research Scholarship. Research in acoustic and electroacoustic music composition informs works such as Lunar Prism and Clock-in, Clock-out, which blend Chinese aesthetics with Western compositional techniques. Electroacoustic pieces like Ink Drifts, Time Slips incorporate Ambisonics and Max/MSP to explore immersive spatial sound.​

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Before moving to Canada, Yilin was a senior recording engineer at Hunan Broadcasting and Television Station, where she led sound design for over 300 projects, including the nationally acclaimed radio drama Rising Unsullied from Mud and the pioneering 3D sound radio drama Gardenia in Blossom. She also worked as a part-time lecturer at Hunan Art Vocational College (2021–2024) and Guangzhou Fine Art College(2018-2019), mentoring students in sound design and music editing for multimedia applications.

 

Yilin’s compositions have received international recognition through events such as the Yunnan Ethnic Arts Festival (2021–present), where A Story of Nujiang River earned the IEMC Final Award (2020), and the UNESCO City to City 2021: PLAY! Residency (2021–2022).

 

She has received 25 national awards in China, including multiple Golden Deer Awards, Hunan Radio and Television Awards, and the IEMC Final Award. Her work has also been published in Audio Engineering. Recent projects include the LunART Festival’s Composers Hub(Madison, Wisconsin, USA), the Arraymusic Composers Workshop(Toronto, Canada), the Tuckamore Festival’s Young Composer Program(Newfoundland, Canada) and the Compocon 2025 (Vancouver, Canada).