Yuja Wang was born in Beijing in February 1987 and was encouraged at a young age to make music by her dancer mother and percussionist father. She is an internationally recognized concert pianist and ...
Wang also teases in her phrasing, holding out certain notes (a suspension) until your ear is practically begging for resolution. Her gifts are well-known and on this night they were in full force: the ...
This star pianist fascinatingly, and with mixed success, led a trio of 20th-century chamber concertos from the keyboard.
Its title, however, could apply to this entire evening. The unlikely junction of Yuja Wang and Vikingur Olafssón, two of the ...
The audience at the New York Philharmonic Thursday night saw a different side of Yuja Wang—literally.