Category Archives: Press
WQXR Feature – Carnegie Hall Recital Archived Broadcast
9 years ago |
WQXR, By Tom Huizenga, "When critics talk about Yuja Wang, they continue to reach for superlatives. Earlier this month Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times referred to her as one who "eats the world's greatest keyboard challenges for breakfast…
Review: “Yuja Wang slays Beethoven’s monster piano piece — and makes it look easy”
9 years ago |
Los Angeles Times, By Mark Swed, "Wang’s playing is extremely accurate, faithful to the tiniest detail in Beethoven’s score, but that score is not her GPS. Rather than being goal-oriented, she is in it for the adventure, for seeing how…
Piano phenom Yuja Wang on work, play and YouTube cats
9 years ago |
Democrat & Chronicle, By Jann Nyffeler, "Wang was born in Beijing and started playing piano when she was 6. She studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and moved to New York City at 21. “That’s the ironic part,” she says about…
Review: Concert with the New York Philharmonic – explosive and unmissable
9 years ago |
The Guardian, By Seth Colter Walls, "Anyone in town with a broad affection for modern art should want to hear Esa-Pekka Salonen – the only conductor-composer seen fit by Cupertino to star in iPad adverts – meet up with the…
Review: ‘Raging spirit dance’ – Vienna Philharmonic Concert
9 years ago |
Süddeutsche Zeitung, By Michael Stallknecht "It is not unwise that for her first joint appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic, Wang chose the E flat major Concerto, K. 271 ... Since Wang's confident ability to differentiate ... into cascades of sound.…
Review: “Pianist Yuja Wang sets off fireworks of her own at the Bowl”
9 years ago |
Los Angeles Times, By Mark Swed, "Wang is a woman of the world and her time." More