Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Classic FM Grammophone 2009 Young Artist of the Year Yuja Wang Performs Piano Recital at the Kimmel Center, April 29

APRIL 15, 2010

“She seems to have everything: speed, flexibility, pianistic thunder and interpretive nuance.”

—New York Times

 

Part of the next generation of classical musicians, 23 year-old Yuja Wang performs a piano recital in Verizon Hall on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 8pm. A recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Wang studied under Gary Graffman.  Since then, her technical skills, spontaneity, and deeply imaginative interpretations of classical works have won critical praise worldwide.  Her second recital album, Transformation, was released on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, and is comprised of works by Stravinsky, Scarlatti, and Brahms. 

 

Wang’s recital program at the Kimmel Center will include works by Schumann, Schubert, Scriabin and Prokofiev. Currently in Ferrara, Italy recording her third album, Wang performs Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto and Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. As an exclusive recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon, her third album is scheduled for release in the fall.

 

Tickets for Yuja Wang are available from $30 to $48 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-790-5883.

 

A limited number of $10 community rush tickets will be available for these performances. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning at 5:30pm prior to evening curtain time and 11:30am for matinees. Limit one ticket per person.

 

At age 23, Chinese pianist Yuja Wang has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, gives recitals in major cities worldwide, makes regular appearances at festivals and is a dedicated performer of chamber music. Her critically acclaimed debut recording, Sonatas & Etudes, was nominated for a Grammy® Award in the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) category and named Best Debut Album of 2009 by International Piano magazine.  Her upcoming U.S. engagements include recitals in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington D.C., among other cities, and performances with the New World Symphony in Miami and the San Francisco Symphony in San Francisco and Los Angeles, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.

 

Born in Beijing, Wang began playing the piano at the age of six under the instruction of Professors Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren. She moved to the United States at 15 to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied from 2002 to 2008. In 2006, Wang received the Gilmore Young Artist Award.  Wang last performed as part of the Kimmel Center’s classical offerings in 2008 with conductor Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.  She was also a featured performer part of the Gary Graffman tribute concert in honor of her teacher at the Kimmel Center in 2007, and a soloist with the China Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004.

 

Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 Season is sponsored by Citi. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents.

 

Free at the Kimmel programming and subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10 are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program, supported by a generous grant from the Wachovia Foundation.

 

The Kimmel Center is a recipient of partnership funding through the nationally recognized PNC “Grow Up Great” initiative, a ten-year, $100 million investment preparing children for success in school and life. Funding gives support to the Kimmel Center’s early childhood program “Bop and Swing,” an arts program for children 1-5 years old, designed to promote an appreciation for American culture.

 

KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS SPONSORED BY CITI

Thursday, April 29, 2010 | 8pm
Verizon Hall

 

Yuja Wang, piano

 

Program:

 

SCHUMANN: Symphonic Etudes
SCHUBERT ARR. LISZT: Three Lieder
SCRIABIN: Selection of poems and etudes
PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 6

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