1987

Born in Beijing

1993

First piano lessons, leading to studies with Professors Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music

1996

Recital in Australia

1998

Recital in Germany

1999

Exchange student at the Morningside Music Bridge programme at Mount Royal College in Calgary and winner of its concerto competition

2001

Begins two years of study with Hung Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone at Mount Royal College Conservatory. Receives the Special Jury Award at the first Japan Sendai International Music Competition, where she is the youngest competitor

2002

Becomes student of Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia (graduation in 2008). This summer and the next, she works with John Perry at the Aspen Music Festival, where she wins the concerto competition in her first year. Featured performer in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Up and Coming” series

2003

Triumphant European concerto debut in Zurich performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4 with the Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman

2005

After her North American debut performing Beethoven’s Concerto no. 4 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra under Pinchas Zukerman in Ottawa (replacing Radu Lupu at one day’s notice), the Canadian press declares: “A star is born”. She has been invited back to the NAC every season since then

2006

Debuts with the New York Philharmonic (Liszt: Concerto no. 1 under Lorin Maazel) and the symphony orchestras of Chicago and Japan’s NHK (Prokofiev: Concerto no. 2 under Charles Dutoit), San Francisco (Ravel: Concerto in G under Michael Tilson Thomas) and Houston. First recital tour of Germany. Receives this year’s prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award

2007

Boston Symphony Orchestra debut (deputizing for Martha Argerich) playing Tchai­kovsky’s Concerto no. 1 under Dutoit. Appears in the UK and Netherlands with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov. Returns to China to perform with the China Philharmonic and Guangzhou Symphony orchestras. Lisbon debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Lawrence Foster (Tchaikovsky: Concerto no. 1, Prokofiev: Concerto no. 3). Replaces Yefim Bronfman at a day’s notice in Prokofiev’s Concerto no. 2 with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, resulting in immediate re-engagement

2008

Yuja Wang closes the St. Petersburg Winter Arts Festival. US tour with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner. Other concerts include the Baltimore Symphony (Yan Pascal Tortelier), New World Symphony (Tilson Thomas), Detroit Symphony and NHK Symphony orchestras (both under Dutoit) and the Orchestre national de Belgique (Walter Weller). Verbier and Saratoga festival debuts. Several recitals in the US and in Paris

2009

Signs an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Her first release on the Yellow Label features works by Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt and Scriabin (Grammy^® nominated for “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance” 2010). Makes a very successful debut in Italy playing concertos by Prokofiev with the Orchestra Mozart under the direction of Claudio Abbado. Further engagements include concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony of Washington, Dallas Sym­phony, Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony orchestras and the Filarmonica della Scala.  She makes her Carnegie Hall debut in October performing Prokofiev’s Concerto no. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Dutoit. In November she tours North America with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninov Concerto no. 2). Numerous recitals in the US, Hong Kong, Beijing and throughout Europe. Festival appearances in Verbier, Lucerne, La Roque d’Anthéron, Bergamo, Bad Kissingen, Aspen and Santa Fe. Yuja Wang receives the Gramophone Award “Young Artist of the Year”

2010

This year’s engagements include a tour in the US playing Rachmaninov’s Concerto no. 2 and Beethoven’s Concerto no. 5 with the Russian National Orchestra and in Israel performing Rachmaninov’s Concerto no. 3 and Mozart’s Concerto K. 466; concerts with the Royal Philharmonic (Dutoit), Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart (Claudio Abbado), New World Symphony (Bartók: Concerto no. 2) and San Francisco Symphony (Tilson Thomas), Gulbenkian Orchestra (Bartók: Concerto no. 2 and Mendelssohn: Concerto no. 1) and Hong Kong Philharmonic (Muhai Tang); various chamber music appearances and recitals throughout Europe and the US including her recital debut at the Salzburg Mozarteum; festival appearances in Brescia and Bergamo (Michelangeli Festival), Schwetzingen, Bad Kissingen, Verbier, Montreux, International Chopin Festival in Poland, Saratoga Springs and Santa Fe. Yuja Wang’s second Deutsche Grammophon album is being released in May: Transformations – an integrated solo programme featuring Brahms, Ravel, Scarlatti and Stravinsky