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Season Opening Gala Concert with the National Symphony Orchestra

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On September 28, Yuja Wang joins the National Symphony Orchestra, led by Gianandrea Noseda, for the Kennedy Center’s season opening gala concert. The program explores how great composers of the last century have embraced the distinctly American art form with…

Concerts at the Tsinandali Festival

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On September 18, 19 & 22, Yuja Wang performs at the first-ever Tsinandali Festival in Georgia. For the first concert, Yuja is joined by clarinetist Martin Fröst for a chamber concert with works including von Weber’s virtuosic Grand Duo Concertante,…

Shostakovich with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

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Yuja Wang joins the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and conductor Alan Gilbert this month for two performances part of the "Klingt nach Gilbert" festival at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. The three-week-long inaugural festival presents six exciting and multi-faceted programs in eight concerts to…

Festival Tour with the Staatskapelle Dresden

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Yuja Wang begins her 2019/20 season joining the Staatskapelle Dresden and conductor Myung-Whun Chung on a festival tour to Dublin, London, Gstaad, and Bucharest. For the performances, Yuja will perform one of Rachmaninoff’s most frequently performed opuses – his Piano…

Riga Jurmala Music Festival with Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

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On August 25, Yuja Wang joins the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and conducting legend Zubin Mehta at the Riga Jurmala Music Festival. Yuja will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, known as one of the most challenging piano concertos, requiring perfect…

Yuja Wang and Leonidas Kavakos at the Lucerne Festival

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This month, Yuja Wang and her frequent collaborator, Leonidas Kavakos, join together for a concert at the Lucerne Festival on August 19. The outstanding soloists, together, “they sound like a single organism” (Financial Times), will perform works by Mozart, Prokofiev,…

Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert on PBS

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On August 9, PBS will broadcast Yuja Wang’s performance at the Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert on their series, Great Performances. The annual open-air concert at Austria’s Schönbrunn Palace will premiere Friday, August 9 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/gperf…

‘Blue Hour’ Summer Tour with Andreas Ottensamer

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Photo by Stefan Hoderat This month, Yuja Wang and clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer begin their Blue Hour summer tour traveling to France, Switzerland, Scotland, Croatia, and Montenegro. Marking their first recording together, Yuja joined forces with Mr. Ottensamer to recorded a Romantic…

Today, as part of Rimowa ’s “Never Still” campaign, the high-end luggage brand will unveil Yuja Wang’s ‘icon film’ , an intimate portrait of life on the road showing the resilience and drive required to endure and thrive as one of the world’s most in-demand classical artists. > Scroll down to watch the film in full Directed by Matt Baron , Yuja’s film offers a precious look at a lifetime performer, probing how a demanding lifestyle of …

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John Adams’ ‘Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?’ with the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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On July 25, Yuja Wang reprises John Adams’ piano concerto Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Gustavo Dudamel. Composed for Ms. Wang, she premiered the work in March…