Wang Yujia
Since her 2005 debut with the National Arts Center Orchestra, 25-year-old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has performed with many of the world’s prestigious orchestras and esteemed conductors in the US and abroad, including with the New York Philharmonic, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Tilson Thomas. She has performed with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in Beijing, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Spain and London, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Wang has given recitals in major cities throughout Asia, Europe, and North America and makes regular chamber music appearances at summer festivals internationally. She made her Carnegie Hall recital debut (Stern Hall) in 2011.
An exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon, Wang’s debut recording is Sonatas & Etudes (2009). Gramophone magazine named her the Classic FM Gramophone Awards 2009 Young Artist of the Year. She received an Echo Award 2011 as “Young Artist of the Year” for Transformation (2011). Her first concerto album, in collaboration with Maestro Claudio Abbado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, was nominated for a Grammy® for “Best Classical Instrumental Solo.” Her most recent record, Fantasia, is a collection of encore pieces.
Wang studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia (2008). At age 15, she won Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition. She received the Gilmore Young Artists Award (2006) and the Avery Fisher Career Grant (2010) and is a Steinway Artist.
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