Together, Wang and the BSO set up an incredibly engaging performance, with sounds that lingered as echoes in the hall when ...
For decades violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has drawn widespread coverage for her strapless, form-fitting gowns as well as her superb fiddling. Yuja Wang is attracting similar attention mixing miniskirts ...
Playing with Fire’ at Paris’s Musée de la musique places the pianist inside a volcano, beneath the sea and on an ice floe ...
She’s no flash in the pan. All of 25, pianist Yuja Wang has been doing this for a good eight years now — blowing away audiences with her shazam performances of colossal works. Case in point: her ...
At the age of 24, Chinese-born Yuja Wang is one of the most exciting concert pianists in the world. Onstage, she cuts an elegant, sometimes provocative figure. Backstage, she’s more like a teenager, ...
In the short term, the applause that filled Davies Symphony Hall at the end of the San Francisco Symphony's concert Wednesday night - tumultuous, exuberant, seemingly endless - was meant for the ...
Yuja Wang did something crazy last year. The Beijing-born pianist was already among the world’s most celebrated soloists on her instrument when she chose to try something superhuman. She linked up ...
As every parent knows, the time inevitably comes when a young person we cherish begins to adopt a darker, edgier attitude. The sweet sounds they used to make are replaced by sometimes frightening ...
In four other Scriabin pieces Wang proved she also has poetry in her soul. The composer's mysticism came through in her dreamy account of two preludes and, especially, the hushed spell she cast on the ...
Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang isn't one to do anything in half measures. So when we invited her to record a performance in a room at the Steinway & Sons piano factory, she showed up in Queens that ...