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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

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 4 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Chopin’s Prelude No. 4 in E Minor is one of the 24 preludes opus 28 for piano. By Frédéric Chopin’s request, this piece was played at his own funeral, along with Mozart’s Requiem.

Scarlatti - Sonata K. 427 in G Major - Wang, Piano

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Sonata

Scarlatti – Sonata K. 427 – Wang, Piano

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata K. 427 in G Major was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. Today he is known mainly for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Ravel – Piano Concerto in G Major – Yuja Wang

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto is in three movements and was deeply infused with jazz idioms and harmonies, which, at the time, were highly popular in Paris as well as the United States.

Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang play Grieg's Cello sonata in A minor

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Sonata

Grieg – Cello Sonata – Capuçon, Cello; Wang, Piano

Edvard Grieg composed the Cello Sonata in 1882–83, marking a return to composition following a period when he had been preoccupied with his conducting duties at the Bergen Symphony Orchestra as well as illness.

Liszt - Piano Concerto No 1 in E-Flat Major - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Liszt – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Yuja Wang

Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version is dated 1849.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 9 (Jeunehomme) - Yuja Wang, Piano

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 9 – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No 9 “Jenamy” (often incorrectly nicknamed “Jeunehomme”) in E-Flat Major, K. 271, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written in Salzburg in 1777, when Mozart was 21 years old.

Yuja Wang plays Chopin's Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Nocturne / Piano

Nocturne No. 13 (Chopin) – Yuja Wang, Piano

Nocturne No. 13 is part of Nocturnes, Op. 48, a set of two nocturnes written by Chopin in 1841 and published the following year in 1842. They are dedicated to Mlle. Laure Duperré.

Gluck/Sgambatti - Dance of the Blessed Spirits - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / CLASSICAL MUSIC / Dance / Piano / Transcription

Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Gluck/Sgambati) – Wang, Piano

Dance of the Blessed Spirits is a melody from Orpheus and Eurydice, an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi.

Prokofiev - Sonata No 7, 3rd movement - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Sonata

Prokofiev – Sonata No. 7, Precipitato – Wang, Piano

Piano Sonata No. 7 (occasionally called the “Stalingrad”) is the second of the three “War Sonatas” written by Sergei Prokofiev. The sonata was first performed on 18 January 1943 in Moscow by Sviatoslav Richter.

Ravel - La Valse - Wang, Piano

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Waltz

Ravel – La Valse – Wang, Piano

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris.