Friday, August 26, 2011

Yuja Wang, Age 11, Piano

Yuja Wang, Age 11, Piano, Beijing China

I am so impressed with her articulation and the fluidity of her piano technique. Wow! You will love her video. It is amazing impressive!

Biography:

Born in Beijing in 1987, Yuja began studying piano at age six, with her earliest public performances taking place in China, Australia and Germany, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren. Following three years, from 1999 to 2001, at the Morningside Music summer program at Calgary’s Mount Royal College, an artistic and cultural exchange program between Canada and China, Yuja moved to Canada and began studying with Hung Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone at the Mount Royal College Conservatory. In 2002, when Yuja was 15, she won Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition and moved to the U.S. to study with Gary Graffman at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she graduated in 2008. In 2006 Yuja received the Gilmore Young Artist Award.  In 2010 she was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.  Yuja is a Steinway Artist. Biography from http://www.yujawang.com/.





Waltz c sharp minor, Op 64 No 2
Frédéric François Chopin

I couldn't pass this one up....ENJOY!


Andante
From Sonata In C Major, K 545
by Amadeus Mozart

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