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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.”

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor - Wang, Piano

Prokofiev – Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Sergei Prokofiev set to work on his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1912 and completed it in 1913. But that version of the concerto is lost; the score was destroyed in a fire following the Russian Revolution.

Ligeti - Etude No 4, Fanfares - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Ligeti – Etude No 4, Fanfares – Wang, Piano

4th piece from Book I, Fanfares is Ligeti’s Etude No 4 for piano and is dedicated to the German pianist Volker Banfield. György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001.

Chopin - Nocturne No 13 in C Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Nocturne / Piano

Chopin – Nocturne No. 13 – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Nocturnes, Op. 48 are a set of two nocturnes written by Frédéric Chopin in 1841 and published the following year in 1842. They are the only two nocturnes in opus 48 and are dedicated to Mlle. Laure Duperré.

Bartok - Piano Concerto No 2 - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Bartok – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, (1930–31) is the second of three piano concerti written by Béla Bartók, and is notorious for being one of the most difficult pieces in the repertoire. In approaching the composition, Bartók wanted the music to be more contrapuntal.

Brahms - Piano Concerto No 1 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, is a work for piano and orchestra completed by Johannes Brahms in 1858. The composer gave the work’s public debut in Hanover, the following year.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Toccata

Prokofiev – Toccata in D Minor – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Toccata in D minor Op. 11 for solo piano was written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1912 and debuted by the composer on December 10, 1916 in Petrograd.

Yuja Wang performs Schumann's piano concerto in A minor

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Schumann – Piano Concerto – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 was completed in the year 1845 and is the only piano concerto written by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann. The work was premiered in Dresden on December 4, 1845.

Prokofiev - Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Piano Sonata No. 8 – Yuja Wang

Piano Sonata No 8 in B-Flat Major, Op. 84 (1944) is a sonata for solo piano composed by Sergei Prokofiev, the third of the Three War Sonatas. The sonata was first performed on 30 December 1944 in Moscow by the Russian pianist Emil Gilels.

Chopin - 24 Preludes for Piano Op 28 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 8 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Chopin Prelude No 8, in F-Sharp Minor, counters the calm simplicity of the seventh with a broad stream of sonority of peculiar beauty, diffused in rising and falling waves of airy figuration. Among its admirers was Witold Lutosławski, who called it a ‘wonder’.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Piano Sonata No. 3 (Chopin) – Yuja Wang

Chopin’s Piano Sonata No 3 in B Minor, Op. 58, is the last of the composer’s piano sonatas. Completed in 1844 and dedicated to Countess Émilie de Perthuis, the work is considered to be one of Frédéric Chopin’s most difficult compositions, both technically and musically.