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Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang (Chinese: 王羽佳; pinyin: Wáng Yǔjiā; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese and American pianist. She began learning piano at the age of six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
By age 21, she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist and signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Wang currently lives in New York City.
Wang comes from an artistic family of Hui ethnicity. Her mother is a dancer and her father is a percussionist. Both live in Beijing.
Wang's mother initially hoped her daughter would pursue dance as a career. As a child, however, Wang often amused herself by idly pressing the keys of the family's old piano, a wedding gift to her parents, which sparked her early interest in playing the instrument. She later joked that she was "too lazy" and much preferred "sitting on the piano bench". Wang began learning the piano at age six. At age seven, she began studies at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music. Her early teachers included Zhou Guangren, Ling Yuan, and other renowned piano pedagogues in China. At age eleven, Wang entered the Morningside Music Bridge International Music Festival (at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta) as the festival's youngest student.
At the age of fifteen, Wang entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied for five years with Gary Graffman and graduated in 2008. Graffman said that Wang's technique impressed him during her audition, but "it was the intelligence and good taste" of her interpretations that distinguished her.
In 1998, at the age of eleven, Wang received third prize in the Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists in Germany. Three years later, she won the third prize and the special jury prize (awarded to an outstanding finalist less than 20 years of age, with prize money of 500,000 Japanese yen) at the first Sendai International Music Competition in Sendai, Japan.
In 2002, Wang won the concerto competition at the Aspen Music Festival.
In 2003, Wang made her European debut with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Switzerland, playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 under the baton of David Zinman. She made her North American debut in Ottawa with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in the 2005–2006 season, replacing Radu Lupu performing that Beethoven concerto with Pinchas Zukerman conducting.
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Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang (Chinese: 王羽佳; pinyin: Wáng Yǔjiā; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese and American pianist. She began learning piano at the age of six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
By age 21, she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist and signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Wang currently lives in New York City.
Wang comes from an artistic family of Hui ethnicity. Her mother is a dancer and her father is a percussionist. Both live in Beijing.
Wang's mother initially hoped her daughter would pursue dance as a career. As a child, however, Wang often amused herself by idly pressing the keys of the family's old piano, a wedding gift to her parents, which sparked her early interest in playing the instrument. She later joked that she was "too lazy" and much preferred "sitting on the piano bench". Wang began learning the piano at age six. At age seven, she began studies at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music. Her early teachers included Zhou Guangren, Ling Yuan, and other renowned piano pedagogues in China. At age eleven, Wang entered the Morningside Music Bridge International Music Festival (at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta) as the festival's youngest student.
At the age of fifteen, Wang entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied for five years with Gary Graffman and graduated in 2008. Graffman said that Wang's technique impressed him during her audition, but "it was the intelligence and good taste" of her interpretations that distinguished her.
In 1998, at the age of eleven, Wang received third prize in the Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists in Germany. Three years later, she won the third prize and the special jury prize (awarded to an outstanding finalist less than 20 years of age, with prize money of 500,000 Japanese yen) at the first Sendai International Music Competition in Sendai, Japan.
In 2002, Wang won the concerto competition at the Aspen Music Festival.
In 2003, Wang made her European debut with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Switzerland, playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 under the baton of David Zinman. She made her North American debut in Ottawa with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in the 2005–2006 season, replacing Radu Lupu performing that Beethoven concerto with Pinchas Zukerman conducting.
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