Any time Yuja Wang and Michael Tilson Thomas share the stage, something remarkable happens: a synergy that makes the music at hand sound fresh and new. It happened again Wednesday evening at Davies ...
For a pianist, difficulty comes in many flavors, from the most obvious — tossing off fistfuls of notes with fiendish precision and dexterity — to more delicate tasks like making a persuasive case for ...
The sight of a new YouTube video put a smile on my face: the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2, played by Yuja Wang, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. The performance ...
In recent years, Yuja Wang has swept through the Southland in a variety of formats, from playing in a duo with violinist Leonidas Kavakos to taking on Tchaikovsky’s second piano concerto with the ...
Wang’s program was ambi­tious. Rather than presenting a selection of Chopin’s shorter works, she chose instead to perform his sonatas nos 2 and 3. Alongside this, Wang programmed five contrasting ...