Yuja Wang

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Yuja Wang in Basel (2012)
Yuja Wang in Basel (2012)
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Weber / Brahms / Mendelssohn: Blue Hour (with Andreas Ottensamer )
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Yuja Wang ([ ˈjuːd͡ʒɑ ˈwɑŋ ]; Chinese  王羽佳 , Pinyin Wáng Yǔjiā ; born  February 10, 1987 in Beijing , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese pianist who lives in the USA.

Life

Wang grew up in Beijing as the daughter of a dancer and percussionist . She received her first piano lessons at the age of six and initially studied at the Music Conservatory in Beijing. At the age of 14 she continued her studies at Mount Royal College in Calgary , Canada , and at the age of 15 moved to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to continue studying with Gary Graffman . Today she lives in New York .

Appearances

After first prizes in 2001, her debut in Europe took place in 2003. In January 2009, Wang signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon and played Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 at the opening concert of the Lucerne Festival with Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra .

From the 2009/10 to 2011/12 season, Yuja Wang was an artist in the Junge Wilde series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus. In 2011 she played Rachmaninov's Concerto No. 2 with conductor Yuri Temirkanov at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and Concerto No. 3 with conductor Xian Zhang and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in summer 2012.

In 2016 she performed together with Martin Grubinger in Beijing , Vienna , Munich , Zurich and Tel Aviv . In 2019 she performed with the violinist Leonidas Kavakos in the Prinzregententheater in Munich, in the Konzerthaus in Vienna and in the Carnegie Hall in New York. On June 20, 2019, she was the star guest at the Vienna Philharmonic's Summer Night Concert under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel and interpreted George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as soloist .

Discography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Yuja Wang  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yuja Wang in the German charts
  2. ↑ At the beginning of this video you can hear the name spoken by Yuja Wang himself.
  3. ^ Arnt Cobbers: Interview with Yuja Wang. “Culture has long been globalized”. Concerti , accessed October 24, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Yuja Wang - biography. ECHO Klassik , accessed on October 24, 2016 .
  5. ^ Watch Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor - Yuja Wang, Yuri Temirkanov (No dialog) () online - Amazon Video. Retrieved December 30, 2016 .
  6. ^ Programm.ARD.de - ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov. In: programm.ARD.de. Retrieved December 30, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Yuja Wang plus percussion: Fireworks on the piano. In: euronews. September 1, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  8. ^ Konzerthaus: Two musicians who have little in common , Die Presse, January 21, 2019
  9. ^ Never cheesy: Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang in the Prinzregententheater , Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 18, 2019
  10. ^ Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Dazzle at Carnegie Hall , The National Herald, February 7, 2019
  11. ↑ CHIEF CONDUCTOR AND MUSIC DIRECTOR. In: Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich. April 15, 2012, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  12. ^ Gilmore Young Artist Award. Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, accessed October 24, 2016 .
  13. ^ Young Artist of the Year. Gramophone , accessed October 24, 2016 .
  14. ^ Avery Fisher Career Grant. Lincoln Center , accessed October 24, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Michael Cooper: Yuja Wang and Susanna Malkki Win Musical America Awards. The New York Times, October 18, 2016, accessed March 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wang, Yuja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 王羽佳 (Chinese); Wang Yujia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing , China