Shaowu Wang is a viola professor and doctoral supervisor of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM), doctoral supervisor, a holder of special allowance from the State Council, deputy director of the 12th Academic Committee of CCOM, and is current vice president of Tianjin Conservatory of Music. He obtained a doctoral degree in performing from konzertexamen of the Hochschule für Musik Köln.  

He studied with Professor Sui Keqiang and graduated from the orchestra department of CCOM in 1996. With rewarding the scholarship from the DAAD in 2002, Wang went to Germany to study with the famous violist Mathias Buchholz at the German Hochschule für Musik Köln.