YUJA WANG

Pianist Yuja Wang’s 2017–18 season features recitals, concert series, and tours with some of the world’s most venerated ensembles and conductors. She began summer 2017 on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra and and a program featuring Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, followed by a performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and . Later engagements include concerts with the Munich Philharmonic and , a series of performances at the Verbier Festival, and a three-city German tour with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. She also embarks on play-conduct tours with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and joins Jaap van Zweden’s inaugural tour with the and the final tour of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s directorship with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Other notable appearances include concerts in Hong Kong, Miami, Prague, Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Washington, D.C.

In winter 2017 Ms. Wang reunites with violinist and frequent collaborator for a European chamber tour, and in the spring of 2018 she embarks on a recital tour to premier venues in the U.S. and Europe, which includes stops in New York City, San Francisco, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, and Paris.

Yuja Wang was born into a musical family in Beijing. After childhood piano studies in China, she received advanced training in Canada and at ’s Curtis Institute of Music with . Her international breakthrough came in 2007 when she replaced as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Two years later she signed an exclusive contract with and has since established her place among the world’s leading artists with a succession of critically acclaimed performances and recordings.

Ms. Wang was named Musical America’s Artist of the Year for 2017.