Yuja Wang was born in Beijing on February 10, 1987. An only child, she grew up with a dancer mother and percussionist father. She took up the piano at six, was identified as a major talent, and took classes at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
Wang’s first breakthrough outside China was her win at the Sendai International Music Competition in Japan in 2001. She moved that year to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to enter the Mount Royal College Conservatory. Later she studied at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music under Gary Graffman.
Here she is to play a series of extraordinary encores for you:
