Category Archives: Press
“Cleveland Orchestra and guests pit order against wildness, and everyone wins”
9 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)
9 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…
Yuja Wang named 2017 Musical America Artist of the Year
9 years ago |
Yuja Wang has been awarded the title of 2017 Musical America Artist of the Year. The 56th Annual Awards ceremony takes place at New York City's Carnegie Hall on December 8, to recognize Ms. Wang and her fellow honorees -…
“Yuja Wang lets loose with the Philadelphia Orchestra – on her own terms” (Philly.com)
9 years ago |
The Philadelphia Inquirer: She is a magnificent pianist. It was fascinating to hear her hold an astonishing firepower in abeyance until the encore, and late in the encore at that. She limited rubato and showiness in the first half of…
“Yuja Wang, the pianist who will not go quietly” (euronews)
10 years ago |
euronews To the outside observer, Yuja Wang, may seem more like a Rock ‘n’ Roll star than a concert pianist. With her outlandish dress sense and shock of black hair that would make Sid Vicious weep, the Chinese musician does…
Yuja Wang and the Art of Performance
10 years ago |
The New Yorker, by Janet Malcolm What is one to think of the clothes the twenty-nine-year-old pianist Yuja Wang wears when she performs—extremely short and tight dresses that ride up as she plays, so that she has to tug at…
‘Dudamel and Wang deliver a ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ for the Hollywood Bowl history books’
10 years ago |
"Thursday, with Yuja Wang as Dudamel’s spectacular soloist in “Rhapsody in Blue” at the Hollywood Bowl, everything changed big time. This was a Gershwin performance for the Bowl history books, which have chapters devoted to all the composer’s greatest interpreters…
‘Tanglewood as Melting Pot’
10 years ago |
"Wang played the Ravel Piano Concerto in G, and then, after intermission, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” in Ferde Grofe’s big-orchestra instrumentation. Wang was everything her recordings suggest: intense, poetic, fearless, and a little wild interpretively (meaning that as a compliment)." Steve Metcalf - WNPR
‘Forget the dress, pianist Yuja Wang plans “colorful” musical program at Hollywood Bowl’
10 years ago |
Earlier this week, pianist Yuja Wang took a rare break from her grueling touring schedule to stop off in New York City where she has an apartment. So what was she doing during the few days off? “Spending money,” the 29-year-old…
Yuja Wang “a consummate professional at the top of her game” at Wolf Trap
10 years ago |
"Yuja Wang, one of today’s greatest pianists, playing not one but two concertos — Ravel’s Concerto in G and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” — with her trademark mixture of ferocious dexterity and a light effortlessness that evokes the wings of…
