This season, pianist Yuja Wang is featured in concerts, recitals, and chamber performances at some of the world’s most renowned venues. She begins the year in celebratory fashion, as the featured soloist for the Philadelphia Orchestra‘s first concerts of the season. The performances, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, showcase Ms. Wang’s heralded interpretation of Chopin’s lively Piano Concerto No. 2.
She travels across North America throughout the fall, with performances of Shostakovich and Chopin with the San Francisco Symphony, and Bartók concerti with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Cleveland Orchestra. Yuja joins the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gianandrea Noseda for concerts in New York City and Newark. Following these dates, she embarks on a multi-city tour throughout Asia with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, with programmes featuring works by Chopin, Shostakovich, and more.
Later in the season, Yuja reunites with multi-percussionist Martin Grubinger for an extensive concert tour, with performances at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Munich’s Prinzregententheater, the Tonhalle Zurich, and Tel Aviv’s Charles Bronfman Auditorium. Ms. Wang also performs Shostakovich and Mozart on New Year’s Eve, in concert with The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
She then returns to China for additional concerts as part of her residency at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, and will play a complete survey of Bartók concerti throughout the tour, at performances in Beijing, Taipei, and Taichung.
In early 2017, Yuja and violinist Leonidas Kavakos present a whirlwind tour of duo recital performances throughout Europe. They present works by Schubert, Debussy, Janáček, and others in Torino, Paris, Ludwigshafen, Düsseldorf, Madrid, Stockholm, and Munich. Ms. Wang and Mr. Kavakos then travel to the US, with dates in North Bethesda, New York City, Seattle, San Diego, Costa Mesa, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz.
Yuja is featured in concert and recital in Stockholm in March 2017. She continues on with a solo recital tour in Europe, at Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana; the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse; a performance in Ferrara, Italy; Florence’s Teatro della Pergola; and the Philharmonie de Paris. Additionally, she presents recitals at the Philharmonie Luxembourg; Amsterdam’s Het Concertgebouw; in Berlin, Germany; the Wiener Konzerthaus; Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Musica; and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Ms. Wang plays Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Cecilia in Rome (April 2017) and returns to the US in the early summer for a complete Bartók concerto cycle, with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The concerts, seven in total, are the last performances of the LAPhil’s 2016/17 regular season.