About me

Name: Max WONG (English name), 王學羲 (Wang Xuexi; Chinese name).
My friends call me Max or Manason. *Japanese name: Undisclosed

I am Japanese by nationality and heritage, born and raised in Nagano, Japan. I currently reside in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

I am fluent in Japanese (my native language), Chinese, and English.

Art-holic, Art lover, and Aspiring oil painter

Pastel Drawing Timelapse “Dreaming Cat” From my YouTube Channel

Paintings: Oil paintings (MY PASSION!!!), Soft Pastels, Drawing with charcoal pencils.
Appreciating art in museums
Listening to music of many genres: Especially Classical music (I mention it below in detail)
And, Spitz (スピッツ: Japanese Rock band), Birdy (English singer), Cardigans (Swedish rock band), Bill Evans (American jazz pianist)
Appreciating a traditional Japanese comic theater play Kyōgen (狂言)
Classical music musician Whom I like:
- Composer: Ravel (No.1!), Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, J.S.Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Rachmaninov, Nielsen, John Rutter, Poulenc, YOSHIMATSU Takasi (吉松隆)… etc…etc…
- Pianist: Sir András Schiff (my favorite piano-sensei), Alice Sara Ott (アリス・紗良・オット), Uchida Mitsuko (内田光子), Hélène Grimaud, Chen Sa (陳薩), Kuroki Yukine (黒木雪音), Friedrich Gulda, Clara Haskil, Vladimir Horowitz
- Cellist: Mstislav Rostropovich (my hero), Giovanni Sollima, Raphaela Gromes
- Violinist: Hilary Hahn, Itzhak Perlman, Pekka Kuusisto, Janine Jansen, Shoji Sayaka (庄司紗矢香), Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Gérard Poulet, Henryk Szeryng, David Oistrakh, Jascha Heifetz
- Conductor: David Zinman, Riccardo Muti, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Charles Munch, Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan
Playing the cello (just a little :p)