Category Archives: Press
Yuja Wang plays Mozart – Performance Today Feature
10 years ago |
YourClassical: Pianist Yuja Wang has tackled the biggest keyboard concertos, but she's never played Mozart...until now. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear Yuja Wang play a Mozart Concerto for the first time, in concert with the LA Philharmonic. (more…)
NPO Cultura interviews Yuja Wang
10 years ago |
In advance of her performances in the Netherlands, Yuja Wang was interviewed by the radio station NPO Cultura. Enjoy the entire audio interview via NPO Cultura Online.
WQXR Feature – Carnegie Hall Recital Archived Broadcast
10 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”
10 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
10 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
10 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
10 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”
11 years ago |
Los Angeles Times, By Mark Swed, "Wang is a woman of the world and her time." More
