Yuja Wang

There are master pianists, there are world-class performers – and there is Yuja Wang, whose superhuman virtuoso musicality puts her in a category of her own. ‘Five stars are not enough for Yuja Wang’, a disbelieving yet enraptured critic once wrote in Dutch newspaper Trouw. Anyone who has heard her play cannot fail to agree wholeheartedly that Yuja Wang is sensational. Sparks flew straight away on her debut with our orchestra in April 2018; and in 2021 / 2022 this unmatched soloist was our passionate Artist in Residence. Fasten your seat belts – here comes Yuja Wang!

Born: Beijing, China
Education: Beijing Conservatory; Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia with Gary Graffman
Awards: Musical America’s Artist of the Year 2017
Breakthrough: 2007 – Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto as substitute for Martha Argerich at Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit
Solo appearances: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Artist in residence: Carnegie Hall New York, Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Luxembourg; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in 2021/22 season
Chamber music: with cellist Gautier Capuçon and clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer
Debut Rotterdam Philharmonic: 2018