For this unique program the New York Philharmonic's Artist-in-Residence Yuja Wang assumed the role of “pianist/leader” in three 20th-century concertos. The results were captivating, but mixed. The ...
July 8: Glasgow (The Square) July 9: Elizabethtown (Freeman Lake Park Bandstand) July 10: Muhlenberg (Felix E. Martin Jr.
Wang also teases in her phrasing, holding out certain notes (a suspension) until your ear is practically begging for resolution. Her gifts are well-known and on this night they were in full force: the ...
Yuja Wang joins Tilson Thomas at the piano for Poulenc's devilishly witty Sonata for Four Hands. The duo will then channel the energy of the swing era with the original jazz band version of ...
“Imagine playing the piano on the Moon,” says Yuja Wang, grinning. The 37-year-old concert pianist mimes a slow-­motion ...
Yuja Wang was born in Beijing in February 1987 and was encouraged at a young age to make music by her dancer mother and percussionist father. She is an internationally recognized concert pianist and ...
Yuja Wang's performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto may have been the main draw, but Yannick Nézet-Séguin paired the familiar centerpiece with two neglected works by 20th-century American ...
A look into the story behind Keith Jarrett and the fateful piano concert captured for 'The Köln Concert', one of the most celebrated jazz piano records.