Yuja Wang Plays Mozart

Chinese pianist Yuja Wang plays Mozart with the LA Philharmonic Orchestra

About This Performance

The astonishing Yuja Wang plays the “Jeunehomme” concerto, her first Mozart with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Bringuier leads Debussy’s quietly revolutionary masterpiece and Salonen’s new work for chorus and orchestra.

Come for: The brilliant Yuja Wang, who has held back from playing Mozart until she felt ready, enters a new phase of her career, and we are fortunate to witness it.

And more: Bringuier leads Debussy's quietly revolutionary masterpiece as well as Salonen's new work for chorus and orchestra based on Dadaist Hugo Ball's poem.

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Yuja Wang

Yuja Wang was born into a musical family in Beijing on 10 February 1987. She received her first piano lessons at the age of six and made rapid progress after she became a student at the Beijing Conservatory. Young Yuja’s musical and personal development gathered momentum in 1999 when she moved to Canada to join the Morningside Music summer programme at Calgary’s Mount Royal College; she went on to become the youngest ever student at Mount Royal Conservatory. In 2002 she won the Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition; she also enrolled to study with the distinguished concert pianist and teacher Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Graffman recalls that he was struck by the “intelligence and good taste” of the 15-year-old’s audition performances.

By the time Wang graduated from the Curtis Institute in May 2008, her professional career was already underway. She attracted media attention in Canada in 2005 following her sensational debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, prompting one newspaper to headline its review, “A star is born”. Her international breakthrough came in March 2007, when she replaced Martha Argerich at short notice as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The pianist’s meteoric rise since has taken place in company with many of the world’s leading orchestras and at the most prestigious concert venues.