Yuja Wang Archive

Prokofiev composed his second piano concerto at the age of 21 while on winter break from his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He had already established himself as something of a bad boy with …

The Opera “Carmen” by George Bizet is one of the most famous works in that form. Many composers have created fantasies and variations on some of the well-known themes from this Opera. Here is Yuja …

Nowhere is the pianist so often an ensemble partner and so rarely a soloist aggressively in the foreground as in this first movement of the Rachmaninov Second Concerto. The initial impulse plays itself out in …

Composed in 1888, the Brahms Third Violin Sonata, Op. 108 in D minor, is the most serious of his three sonatas. In the first movement there are several concentrated motifs, so mysterious in their first …

For me, music has nothing to do with age. Music is timeless. Music is about emotion, joy, sadness, and humor. Here are two generations of musicians playing together, and they surely created joy for me. …