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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 - Waltz No 7 in C-Sharp Minor - Wang, Piano

Chopin – Waltz No. 7 – Yuja Wang, Piano

The Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor is the second work of Frédéric Chopin’s opus 64 and the companion to the Minute Waltz (Op. 64, No. 1). It was composed in 1847 and have three themes with different speeds.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20 - Yuja Wang

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Piano

Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor – Yuja Wang

The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Casino in Vienna on 11 February 1785, with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as the soloist.

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

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Trumpet

Shostakovich – Piano and Trumpet Concerto No. 1 – Wang

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.

Chopin - Étude Op. 10 No. 2 in A Minor - Yuja Wang, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Chopin – Étude Op. 10 No. 2 – Wang, Piano

Étude Op 10 No 2 in A Minor, is a technical study written by Frédéric Chopin for the piano. Composed in 1829, it was first published in 1833.

The Chinese star pianist Yuja Wang plays Mozart-Volodos Turkish March as encore

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC / CLASSICAL MUSIC / March / Piano / Sonata

Mozart-Volodos – Turkish March – Wang, piano

The Turkish March is the third and last movement from Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major (but the Turkish March is in A minor). Also called Turkish Rondo, this third movement “Alla Turca” is often heard on its own.

Yuja Wang performs The Smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) from Robert Schumann, arranged for piano solo by Carl Tausig.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Schumann-Tausig – The Smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) – Wang,Piano

The smuggler (Der Kontrabandiste) is a piece from Robert Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel op. 74. The transcription for piano solo is from Carl Tausig, a Polish composer, pianist and arranger considered by some critics to be the greatest of Liszt’s pupils.

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

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 15 (Raindrop) – Wang, Piano

One of Frédéric Chopin most famous masterpiece, the Raindrop prelude strikes one at first as an oasis of peace and calm. However, the transition from the bright key of D-Flat Major to the tenebrous C-Sharp Minor brings dark, gloomy, disturbing sonorities.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz – Danse Macabre – Wang, Piano

Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It is in the key of G minor. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition.

Prokofiev - Toccata in D minor - Wang, Piano

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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Cello / Piano / Quintet / Viola / Violin

Dvorak – Quintet No. 2 – Wang, Soloists of Berliner Philharmoniker

Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major is a quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello. It was composed between August 18 and October 8, 1887, and was premiered in Prague on January 6, 1888.