Christopher Wang received his Ph.D. in music science from the Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, where he studied music science and musicology with Dr. Hans-Günter Ottenberg, and Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in violin from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts School of Music, where he also studied musicology and music history with Dr. Gregory D. Carroll and Dr. Elizabeth Keathley.
As a devotee to 20th century music, Wang has researched and lectured on composers including Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti, Béla Bartók, Roger Sessions, and Charles Ives. His solo recording of Tellement Loin by living Belgian composer Fanny Tran on Finningham Records won Grand Prix du Disque Belge 2002.
As an author, Christopher Wang's research in musicology titled "Violin Music and Violin Playing in Dresden in the 17th-Century" has been published by Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) in February 2011. His performance edition of the Violin Concerto in B minor Opus 61 by Edward Elgar has been published by UMI Company in Ann Arbor, Michigan in August 2004.
Hailed as a specialist in 17th-century Dresden violin music by Dr. Axel Schoene of the Department of Fine Arts at Dresden People's University, Wang has been a guest professor at this institution since 2008. He has also been invited to make his lecture debut at Queens College's Aaron Copland School of Music in New York City.