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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.”

Ligeti - Etude 10, Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) - Wang, Piano

Ligeti – Etude No. 10, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Wang, Piano

4th piece from Book II, Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) is Ligeti’s Etude No 10 for piano and is dedicated to the French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001.

Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No 2 - Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No. 2 was written by Tchaikovsky in 1879–1880 and dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had insisted he be allowed to perform it at the premiere as a way of making up for his harsh criticism of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.

Young Chinese pianist Yuja Want is playing Chopin's most famous waltz No 6 in D flat major, often called the minute waltz

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Waltz

Chopin – Waltz No. 6 (Minute Waltz) – Wang, Piano

The Waltz No 6 in D-flat major, (Op. 64, No. 1), popularly known as the Minute Waltz or Valse du petit chien, (The Little Dog Waltz), was dedicated by Frédéric Chopin to the Countess Delfina Potocka.

Yuja Wang performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Minor

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 4 – Yuja Wang

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40, was completed in 1926. The work exists in three versions.

Yuja Wang performs Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words Op 67 No 2

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Songs Without Words Op. 67 No. 2 (Mendelssohn) – Wang, Piano

Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) is a series of short lyrical piano pieces by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, written between 1829 and 1845. His sister Fanny Mendelssohn and other composers also wrote pieces in the same genre.

The Chinese pianist Yuja Wang plays Gluck"s Dance of the Blessed Spirits from his opera Orpheus and Eurydice, in Sgambati's transcription

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.

Lutoslawski - Paganini Variations for 2 Pianos - Wang, Kozhukhin

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Variation

Lutoslawski – Paganini Variations – Wang, Kozhukhin

Lutosławski left Warsaw in July 1944 with his mother, merely a few days before the Warsaw Uprising, salvaging only a few scores and sketches—the rest of his music was lost during the complete destruction of the city by Germans after the fall of uprising.

Yuja Wang plays La Leggiereza, one of Franz Liszt's Three Concert Etudes for piano

Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Liszt – La Leggierezza – Yuja Wang, Piano

La Leggierezza (meaning “lightness”) is the second from Franz Liszt’s Three Concert Etudes . It is a monothematic piece in F minor with a very simple melodic line for each hand under an unusual Quasi allegretto tempo marking, usually ignored in favor of something slightly more frenetic.

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Ligeti – Vertige, Etude No. 9 – Yuja Wang, Piano

Vertige, Etude No 9, dedicated to composer Mauricio Kagel, is Ligeti’s third etude from Book 2. Widely-separated hands use chromatic scales to create the effect of endless, falling movement.

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

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – 24 Preludes for Piano – Yuja Wang

Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28, are a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839. Frédéric Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839, partly at Valldemossa, Majorca, where he spent the winter of 1838–39.