Master of Music to MasterChef: former BU Band leader competes in the kitchen

Boston University alumni, Jason Wang (CFA ‘08), is firing up the kitchen on FOX’s MasterChef, hosted by world renowned chef Gordon Ramsay. The competitive cooking series hosts ameatur and home cooking chefs that believe they have the skills to make it through a series of Ramsay’s intense cooking challenges. They make meals with mystery ingredients or under seemingly impossible circumstances either in teams or individually. All of the competitors have a certain amount of time to complete each meal.

Jason Wang made it through the preliminary cooking tests and is now a contestant on the eighth season of the show. He even won this last Wednesday’s Mystery Box Challenge with his Tempura Spot Prawns. Cooking may be a hobby for Jason Wang, but he is definitely passionate about it!

Wang, like the other MasterChef contestants, is not a full-time chef; he’s a musician and music teacher. A Massachusetts native, Jason Wang received his bachelors from Cornell University, then went on to earn his Masters of Music and Historical Performance from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. While attending BU, Wang was the assistant conductor to the Boston University Concert Band. In addition, Wang conducted the Terrier Pep Band, the Scarlet Band, the All Campus Orchestra, and Chamber Music Ensembles. In 2008, Wang stayed local and began teaching at several public schools around the area. Currently, Wang is a freelance singer, Odyssey Opera Singer, Boston Baroque singer and music teacher at Newton South High School.

The Scarlet Band took time out of their Orientation schedule to send Jason their support in the following video. We’ll be hoping that the Terrier Pride continues on Master Chef!

– Jillian Lattimore (COM ’19)