Yuja Wang

Performers

• Yuja Wang, Piano

Program

• RACHMANINOFF Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor (1931 edition)
• LOWELL LIEBERMANN Gargoyles, Op. 29
• SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, Op. 19
• SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 6 in G Major, Op. 62
• RAVEL La valse

Encores:
• RACHMANINOFF Élégie in E-flat minor from Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, No.1
• PROKOFIEV Toccata in D Minor, Op.1
• HOROWITZ Variations on a Theme from Bizet's Carmen
• CHOPIN Waltz in C-sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2
• LISZT "Gretchen am Spinnrade" from Six Songs of Franz Schubert

Event Duration

Bios

• Yuja Wang

  
  Pianist Yuja Wang is widely recognized as one of the most important artists of her generation. She has performed with many of the world's prestigious orchestras, including those of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Abroad, she has appeared with the Staatskapelle Berlin, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, among others.  
  
  Conductors with whom Ms. Wang has collaborated include Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, Manfred Honeck, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Yuri Temirkanov, and Michael Tilson Thomas. She regularly gives recitals throughout Asia, Europe, and North America and appears at summer festivals, including an annual appearance at the Verbier Festival.
  
  Highlights of Ms. Wang's 2012-2013 season include performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Israel and at Vienna's Musikverein, as well as a tour of the US. She also tours with the San Francisco Symphony in Asia, performs an all-Brahms cycle in Paris with the principal players of the Berliner Philharmoniker, returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and gives a recital tour of Japan that culminates with her debut at Tokyo's Suntory Hall. 
  
  Ms. Wang is an exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon. Her debut album, Sonatas & Etudes, was released in 2009. For her second album, Transformation, she received an ECHO Klassik award. She next collaborated with Claudio Abbado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to record her first concerto album, featuring Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Her most recent record, Fantasia, is a collection of encore pieces by Albéniz, Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, and others.

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