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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.”

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

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.

Mendelssohn - Trio No 2 - Wang, Piano; Kavakos, Violin; Capucon, Cello

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Trio / Violin

Mendelssohn – Trio No. 2 – Wang, Kavakos, Capuçon

Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1845 and published in February 1846. The work is scored for a standard piano trio consisting of violin, cello and piano.

Prokofiev - Sonata No 6 in A Major - Yuja Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Sonata No. 6 – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Piano Sonata No 6 in A Major, Op. 82 (1940) is a sonata in four movements for solo piano by Sergei Prokofiev, the first of the Three War Sonatas.

Liszt - Transcendental Étude No 5, Feux Follets - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – Feux Follets – Wang, Piano

Feux Follets (Wills o’ the Wisp) is the fifth étude of the set of twelve Transcendental Études by Franz Liszt. As with the other works in the Études but one, Feux Follets went through three versions.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 24 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Prelude No 24 in D Minor is the last one of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28, a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839.

Yuja Wang speaks about her childhood... and more.

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Yuja Wang Talks about her Childhood… and More

Yuja Wang, born February 10, 1987, is widely regarded as one of the finest living pianists. She was born in Beijing, 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.