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Yuja Wang was born in Beijing, on February 10, 1987. She began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

By the age of 21 she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. She has a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. In an interview with the LA Times, she said “For me, playing music is about transporting to another way of life, another way of being. An actress does that.”

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No 1 - Wang, Piano

Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23, was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between November 1874 and February 1875. It was revised in the summer of 1879 and again in December 1888.

Scriabin - Sonata No 10 - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Scriabin – Sonata No. 10 – Wang, Piano

The Piano Sonata No 10, Op. 70, was written by Alexander Scriabin in 1913. It was his final work in this form. The piece is highly chromatic and atonal like Scriabin’s other late works.

Shostakovich - Concerto No 1 for Piano and Trumpet - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Trumpet

Shostakovich – Concerto for Piano and Trumpet – Wang, Piano

The Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra in C minor, Op. 35, was completed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933. The concerto was an experimentation with a neo-baroque combination of instruments.

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 3 in D Minor- Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3 – Yuja Wang

Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor was written in Dresden and completed on September 23, 1909. The concerto was first performed on Sunday afternoon, November 28, 1909, by Sergei Rachmaninoff himself.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / CLASSICAL MUSIC / Lied / Piano

Schubert-Liszt – Gretchen am Spinnrade – Wang, Piano

Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 18 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust. Gretchen am Spinnrade was originally composed for the soprano voice.

Beethoven - Kreutzer Sonata, No 9 - Bell, Violin; Wang, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Piano / Sonata / Violin

Beethoven – Kreutzer Sonata – Bell, Violin; Wang, Piano

The sonata No. 9 is commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata after the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, to whom it was ultimately dedicated, but who thoroughly disliked the piece and refused to play it.

Schubert - Trout Quintet in A major - Wang, Soloists of Berliner Philharmoniker

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Cello / Lied / Piano / Quintet / Viola / Violin

Schubert – Trout Quintet – Wang, Soloists of Berliner Philharmoniker

The Trout Quintet (Forellenquintett) is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert. The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22 years old; it was not published, however, until 1829, a year after his death.

Chopin - Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Impromptu / Piano

Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu – Wang, Piano

Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth. 66, is a solo piano composition. It was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece despite Frédéric Chopin’s request not to do so.

The Chinese pianist Yuja Wang performs Sergei Rachmaninov's Vocalise in an arrangement for piano solo

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Vocalise – Yuja Wang, Piano

Vocalise is a song by Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed and published in 1915 as the last of his 14 Songs or 14 Romances, Op. 34. Written for high voice (soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words, but is sung using any one vowel of the singer’s choosing.

Chopin - Sonata No 2 in B-Flat Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin) – Yuja Wang

Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35, is a piano sonata in four movements. Frédéric Chopin completed the work while living in George Sand’s manor in Nohant, some 250 km (160 mi) south of Paris, a year before it was published in 1840. The third movement of the Piano Sonata No 2 is Chopin’s famous funeral march.