YujaWang
- Piano
About Yuja
Yuja Wang needs no introduction.
As The New York Times observed, Yuja “has made a career out of dazzling displays of virtuosity”, perhaps most notably when she recently teamed up with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra to perform all four of Rachmaninoff’s piano concerti - followed by his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - in a single concert. This was a feat never before attempted at Carnegie Hall, and one she pulled off with “both clarity and poetry… heft but not bombast, sentiment but not schmaltz” and then came back for more with encores.
The 2024/25 season sees Yuja embark on a tour of Asia with Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra, before joining forces with Víkingur Ólafsson for a duo recital tour of Europe’s most renowned concert halls, which continues in North America in 2025.
November brings a European play-direct tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, where she is Artist in Residence this season, and the new year sees Yuja return to the US where she is also midway through a residency with the New York Philharmonic. In January she performs with the orchestra as both soloist and leader for three performances of Janáček and Stravinsky alongside the original jazz-band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist, Yuja was awarded a Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for the 2023 release The American Project, which also won an Opus Klassik award in the Concerto category.
Contact
For availability and general enquiries
Donagh Collins
Phillippa Cole
For contracts, logistics and press
Ruby Robinson
Representation
General management with Askonas Holt and Opus 3 Artists
Partner Managers:
Japan: KAJIMOTO
Italy: Lorenzo Baldrighi Artists Management
Spain: Duetto
Season Highlights
Video
- Playing
Yuja Wang, Gustavo Dudamel, LA Philharmonic – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.2: II.Adagio sostenuto
Credit: Deutsche Grammophon
Yuja Wang, LA Phil, Gustavo Dudamel – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro vivace
Credit: Deutsche Grammophon
Yuja Wang - Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major “The Hunt”
Credit: Deutsche Grammophon
Yuja Wang - Glass: Études: No. 6
Credit: Deutsche Grammophon
Yuja Wang, Michael Tilson Thomas, and the New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall
Credit: Carnegie Hall & medici.tv
Yuja Wang – Rachmaninov: Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
Credit: Deutsche Grammophon
Yuja Wang plays Schumann's "The Smuggler" on a Steinway Spirio
Credit: Steinway & Sons
News
Press
Recital
Usher Hall, EdinburghDelicately shimmering Chopin (Four Ballades), crystal-clear counterpoint in some Shostakovich preludes and fugues, and a brilliantly persuasive interpretation of Samuel Barber’s knotty Piano Sonata, with its final fugue taken at a storming pace — all just a warm-up. She then gave her customary eight encores, ranging from a Chinese song to an astonishing arrangement of the demonic scherzo from Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 8. Who needs four players when you have a pianist who apparently has four hands?
- The Sunday Times
- 06 August 2024
"The Vienna Recital"
Album ReviewMay 2024Wide-ranging repertoire, but united by the ever-compelling brilliance of this star among her generation of pianists, the remarkable Yuja Wang, captured in concert in 2022.
- Gramophone
- 17 March 2024
Recital
Royal Festival HallJun 2024Yuja Wang’s latest recital at the Festival Hall was a dazzling, at times beguiling affair, carefully structured and executed with her customary flamboyance, glamour and elegance.
- The Guardian
- 09 January 2024
Yuja Wang & Philadelphia Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, New YorkJan 2023Virtuosity on this level, in material this ravishing, is elevating to witness — which is why, even after so many hours, I was left at the end feeling an exhilarated lightness. Like many others I saw, I drifted up the aisle and onto the street unable to stop smiling.
- New York Times
- 29 January 2023
