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 now an internationally recognized concert pianist.
Yuja started playing the piano at the age of six and the following year she went to study at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music.
In 1999 she moved to Canada and enrolled as the youngest ever student at Mount Royal Conservatory.
Wang’s talent was widely recognized in 2001 with her appointment as a Steinway Artist. The following year, she was offered a place at Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Gary Graffman.
Throughout her career, she has worked with talented artists such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, Michael Tilson Thomas, Antonio Pappano, Charles Dutoit, and Zubin Mehta.
Listen now to this amazing pianist as she plays the music of Sergei Rachmaninov.
