When your interviewee lists “Louboutins” as one of their top three travel essentials, you know you’re in for a cracking conversation. We should expect no less from piano prodigy Yuja Wang, the latest ...

Every week, I write these blog posts for the Artist of the Week, which means every week, I am doing a fair amount of research into that particular artist. It has indeed been an exercise in getting to ...

Great pianists come in many varieties. Some performers have a special affinity with a specific composer, such as Richard Goode with Beethoven, or András Schiff and Bach. Others, like the wildly ...

Yuja Wang has a new crush: the fast-talking, buck-toothed Donkey from “Shrek” addressing tourists at Universal Studios Hollywood from the window of a waffle cart. “Step on up. Nice hair. Bring it with ...

The 26-year-old classically trained pianist tackles Rachmaninov's dense and intimidating "Concerto No. 3" in a new recording. The musician says... Yuja Wang: Rooted In Diligence, Inspired By ...

Eric Jacobsen called it a “wild week” for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. I’m thinking more like a “wondrous week” or a “Wow! Wow! Wow! week.” The Orlando Philharmonic’s music director was ...

Three years after her last appearance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, internationally acclaimed ...

Pianist Yuja Wang wound up her San Francisco visit Sunday night with a solo recital in Herbst Theatre that marked the latest installment in an unbroken, and growing, string of musical triumphs. With ...

The world of classical music can be every bit as stodgy as its detractors like to claim. But all it takes to shake things up is an artist of dazzling genius. The jolt in Davies Symphony Hall this week ...

Categorize Yuja Wang if you must, but don't accuse the pianist of resting on her laurels. If she were just the keyboard whiz or flashy dresser some reduce her to, she wouldn't be doing what she's ...

When critics talk about Yuja Wang, they continue to reach for superlatives. Earlier this month Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times referred to her as one who "eats the world's greatest keyboard ...