Category Archives: Press
“The best classical music performances of 2016”
8 years ago |
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Yuja, Mirga, Mahler, Lenny, Louis, Luis and more. A year of the naked, the dead and the saved. The young and old and forgotten. A year in which 10 won’t do ... Yuja: Chinese pianist Yuja Wang had two…
From ‘Breaking the Waves’ to ‘Einstein on the Beach’: The Year in Classical Music
8 years ago |
David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com Best Symphonic Concerts ... Yuja Wang plays Bartók and Messiaen elsewhere, but in Philadelphia, it was Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 — though in a performance as fine as any you're likely to hear.
The National Youth Orchestra of China Announces Its Inaugural Summer Training Residency and Concert Tour Debuting at Carnegie Hall in July 2017 with Yuja Wang
8 years ago |
Press Release: On December 10, the National Youth Orchestra of China (NYO-China) hosted a press conference in Shanghai to announce its inaugural summer training residency and concert tour, as well as the commencement of its application season for the Class of 2017. The event was joined by…
“The Best Classical Music of 2016”
8 years ago |
Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times Speaking of Mr. Salonen, a month before “Elektra,” he led the New York Philharmonic in an ecstatic and mystical account of Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphonie,” with Yuja Wang playing the formidable solo piano part. Here was a…
“The 12 Classical Pieces Times Editors Recommend This Week”
8 years ago |
Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times It’s been a long slog of a November. And you might not exactly be looking forward to the conversations pending over the Thanksgiving table. Music can’t fix it all, alas. But it can make…
Taiwan Embraces San Francisco Symphony and Yuja Wang on Tour
8 years ago |
Janos Gereben, San Francisco Classical Voice After the orchestra’s first visit to Korea last week (part of their eighth tour of Asia), San Francisco Symphony musicians took a charter flight to Tainan — the first-ever direct flight from Seoul —…
“Yuja Wang rises to a new artistic challenge”
8 years ago |
Joshua Kosman, SFGate For a pianist, difficulty comes in many flavors, from the most obvious — tossing off fistfuls of notes with fiendish precision and dexterity — to more delicate tasks like making a persuasive case for a piece as…
Yuja Wang plays Ravel and more with “energy and flair” in concert with the London Symphony Orchestra
8 years ago |
The New York Times: The preternaturally gifted Ms. Wang — showily attired as usual, in a gown with a plunging neckline — joined the orchestra in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, playing with energy and flair in the outer movements and…
“Cleveland Orchestra and guests pit order against wildness, and everyone wins”
8 years ago |
Cleveland.com, Zachary Lewis "Wang, unlike "Parables," was a known quantity. Long before the artist, a regular and popular guest in Cleveland, sat down at the piano between a three-man percussion team at the front of the stage, one knew with…
Yuja Wang wins 2016 Musical America Artist of the Year Award (NYTimes Feature)
8 years ago |
The New York Times, by Michael Cooper The brilliant pianist Yuja Wang was named the 2017 artist of the year on Tuesday by Musical America, the classical music publication, which said in announcing its annual honors that she “represents a…