Yuja Wang Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Husband, Carnegie Hall and Net Worth

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Yuja Wang Biography

Yuja Wang is a Chinese classical pianist born in Beijing. Wang is famously known as one of the finest living pianists. She was an internationally recognized concert pianist at the age of 21. Wang has recorded a contract with Deutsche Grammophon. She started studying piano at the age of 6.

Yuja Wang Age and Birthday

Wang is 35 years old as of 2022. She was born on February 10, 1979, in Bejing. She celebrates her birthday on February 10 every year and her birth sign is Aquarius.

Yuja Wang Height and Weight

Wang is a woman of average stature, she appears to be quite tall in stature in her photos. She stands at a height of 6 feet (180 cm). Nonetheless, she has not shared any information concerning her weight with the public. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Yuja Wang Education

Wang went to Belging’s Center Conservatory of Music. She also entered the Morningside Music Bridge International Music Festival (at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta) as the festival’s youngest students.

Yuja Wang Parents and Family

Wang was born to Zhai Jieming and Wang Jianguo. Her mother Zkao Jieming is a dancer and her father Wang Jianguo is a percussionist. Both of her parents reside in Beijing.

It is not known whether Wang has any siblings or not since she has not shared this information with the media. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Yuja Wang Husband and Children

Wang likes to keep her personal life private hence information about her dating life id under research. It is not known whether she is married, dating, or has any children. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Yuja Wang Salary

Wang has not shared any information concerning her salary with the public. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Yuja Wang Net Worth

Wang has enjoyed a long career in the entertainment industry for quite a long time. Through proceeds from her work as a pianist, she has been able to accumulate a modest fortune. Wang is estimated to have a net worth of about $20 million.

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Yuja Wang Career

Wang won third prize in 1998 in the Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen, Germany. She again won third prize in 2001 and the special jury prize in the piano section at the Sendai International Music Competition in Sendai, Japan. Wang also won the Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition in 2002.

She made her European debut in 2003 with the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Switzerland. Wang also made her North American debut in Ottawa in 2005/06 where she replaced Radu Lupu.

She was named a 2006 biennal Gilmore Young Artist Award winner on September 11, 2005. As part of the award, she received $15,000, appeared at Gilmore Festival concerts, She also had a new piano work commissioned for her.

Wang has toured many places like the Academy of St Martin in the Fields led by Sir Neville Marriner, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and Asia with the San Francisco Symphony and its conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

She has also performed with many orchestras like Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadephia, San Francisco, and Washington. Wang has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, China Philharmonic, Filamonica Della Scala, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Israel Hippharmonicm London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orquesta Nacional de Espana, Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar, the NHK Symphony in Tokyo, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart and Santa Cecelia. Nonetheless, she played tribute to Kennedy Center Honoree in 2019.

In January 2009, Wang signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. She released her first CD, Sonatas & Etudes in 2009.

Yuja Wang Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. The hall is located at 881 Seventh Avenue. It occupies the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park. Wang performed at the Carnegie Hall on February 28, 2000. During her performance, the program was,

GALUPPI Andante from Keyboard Sonata in C Major

SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

RAVEL “Une barque sur l’océan” from Miroirs

MOMPOU “Secreto” from Impresiones intimas

BERG Piano Sonata

BACH Toccata in C Minor, BWV 911

CHOPIN Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 67, No. 4

BRAHMS Intermezzo in E Minor, Op. 119, No. 2

CHOPIN Mazurka in C-sharp Minor, Op. 30, No. 4

BRAHMS Intermezzo in C-sharp Minor, Op. 117, No. 3

CHOPIN Mazurka in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 4

BRAHMS Romance in F Major, Op. 118, No. 5

SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 30

Encores:

SCHUBERT “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” D. 118 (arr. Franz Liszt)

PROKOFIEV Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11

GLUCK Mélodie from Orfeo ed Euridice (arr. Giovanni Sgambati)

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