Yuja Wang (Chinese: 王羽佳; pinyin: Wáng Yǔjiā; born February 10, 1987) is a C… Read Full Bio ↴Yuja Wang (Chinese: 王羽佳; pinyin: Wáng Yǔjiā; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing.
Yuja began playing piano at age six, and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren. Following three years, from 1999 to 2001, at the Morningside Music summer program at Calgary’s Mount Royal College, an artistic and cultural exchange program between Canada and China, Yuja moved to Canada and began studying with Hung Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone at the Mount Royal College Conservatory. In 2002, when Yuja was 15, she moved to the U.S. to study with Gary Graffman at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 2008.
Yuja has performed with many of the world’s prestigious orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, New World Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, in the U.S., and abroad with the Tonhalle Orchestra, China Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and Orchestra Mozart, among others. In 2006 Yuja made her New York Philharmonic debut at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival and performed with the orchestra the following season under Lorin Maazel during the Philharmonic’s Japan/Korea visit. That same season she performed in Leeds, U.K., and toured the Netherlands with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic led by Yuri Temirkanov. In 2008 Yuja toured the United States with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by Sir Neville Marriner and in 2009 she performed as a soloist with the You Tube Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall. She has given recitals in major cities throughout North America and abroad, is a dedicated performer of chamber music, and makes regular appearances at festivals including the Aspen Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Gilmore Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Festival and the Verbier Festival. She has worked with many of the world’s esteemed conductors including Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Robert Spano, Michael Stern, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Osmo Vänskä, and Pinchas Zuckerman.
In 2001, Yuja won Third Prize and Special Jury Prize at the First Sendai International Music Competition in Sendai, Japan. In 2002, when Yuja was 15, she won Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition. Yuja was named a 2006 biennial Gilmore Young Artist award winner.
Yuja is an exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon. Her debut recording, Sonatas & Etudes, was released in the spring of 2009.
Yuja began playing piano at age six, and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren. Following three years, from 1999 to 2001, at the Morningside Music summer program at Calgary’s Mount Royal College, an artistic and cultural exchange program between Canada and China, Yuja moved to Canada and began studying with Hung Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone at the Mount Royal College Conservatory. In 2002, when Yuja was 15, she moved to the U.S. to study with Gary Graffman at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 2008.
Yuja has performed with many of the world’s prestigious orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, New World Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, in the U.S., and abroad with the Tonhalle Orchestra, China Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and Orchestra Mozart, among others. In 2006 Yuja made her New York Philharmonic debut at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival and performed with the orchestra the following season under Lorin Maazel during the Philharmonic’s Japan/Korea visit. That same season she performed in Leeds, U.K., and toured the Netherlands with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic led by Yuri Temirkanov. In 2008 Yuja toured the United States with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by Sir Neville Marriner and in 2009 she performed as a soloist with the You Tube Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall. She has given recitals in major cities throughout North America and abroad, is a dedicated performer of chamber music, and makes regular appearances at festivals including the Aspen Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Gilmore Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Festival and the Verbier Festival. She has worked with many of the world’s esteemed conductors including Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Robert Spano, Michael Stern, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Osmo Vänskä, and Pinchas Zuckerman.
In 2001, Yuja won Third Prize and Special Jury Prize at the First Sendai International Music Competition in Sendai, Japan. In 2002, when Yuja was 15, she won Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition. Yuja was named a 2006 biennial Gilmore Young Artist award winner.
Yuja is an exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon. Her debut recording, Sonatas & Etudes, was released in the spring of 2009.
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Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor Op.35: 3. Marche funèbre
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Wangyu Lin
The sophisticated chord progression of this spectacular sonata sounds so much alike of what would be later used by Rachmaninoff. Yet they never met (Rachmaninoff was born nearly 25 years after Chopin's death). It's simply the most amazing phenomenon when one can travel freely in time.
Staffan Olofsson
Interesting observation, thank you!
whrmccgah
Record companies, please take note: this is what a piano is supposed to sound like. Why do they insist on over-processing the recordings and leave us with desiccated piano sound that completely destroys the considerable efforts pianists put into tone production? I've watched this performance before, and I remember the sound was a lot flatter in the video I watched. Thanks Peter for uploading this one!
Private Private
@Luna Bicornis sorry, but you are too insignificant to have trolls, you are not able to make more or less intelligent argument by using vocabulary cliches, this is why I felt that my exchange is with someone who has a mind of child, I doubt you could comprehend sarcasm in my previous comment
Luna Bicornis
@Private Private you're welcome. I like my trolls well fed.
Private Private
@Luna Bicornis thank you for this comment because my exchange with you makes me feel like child abuser, I’m glad you don’t think the same.
Luna Bicornis
@Private Private grow up
Private Private
@Luna Bicornis improve your comprehension and reading skills because it took you two months to read, to digest and to answer.
Staffan Olofsson
Marche funèbre is great but almost too well known, I like more the lovely theme that comes at 17:04, as if all is not only death and sorrow.
Mark Humber
A man ruled by his emotions, Chopin met Aurore Dudevant, known to the world as the novelist George Sand, through the virtuoso pianist Liszt. Madame Sand was brilliant and domineering; her need to dominate complemented Chopin’s need to be ruled. She left a memorable account of the composer at work:
"His creative power was spontaneous, miraculous. It came to him without effort or warning. . . . But then began the most heartrending labour I have ever witnessed..."
For eight years, Chopin spent his summers with Sand although his health grew progressively worse and his relationship with Sand eventually ended in bitterness. His lonely despair pervades his last letters:
“What has become of my art?. . . And my heart, where have I wasted it?”
Chopin died of tuberculosis in Paris at the age of thirty-nine. The artistic world bid its farewell to the strains of the composer’s own funeral march, from his Piano Sonata in B-flat minor. Thank you for this beautiful performance, Yuja.