About a month ago I
visited London for 4 days (I know, I should have written about my trip much
earlier on my blog… (^_^;). I went to Yuja Wang's piano concert accompanied by
London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall. I don't know if you know her
but she is AMAZING! A GENIUS! She played one of the most complicated piece by
Prokofiev without any mistake!
Like Lang Lang, she
is an extremely talented Chinese classical pianist who started playing the
piano at the early age and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in
Beijing and they also both studied with the same teacher - Gary Graffman - at
the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
When they start
playing the piano at concerts, it's like you are under their spell and are
mesmerized but at the same time excited and your heart starts beating fast! You
can almost feel their energy they are putting into the piano...
Not only her virtuoso performances at the piano attracts much attention
but also her very short dress and super high-heels! ;-) That's her
style when she is playing at concerts. She draws lots of criticism with that but she simply
explains: "I can dress in long skirts when I'm 40." :)
After the concert, Yuja must have been really
exhausted but she took time for her fans to give autographs, take pictures and chit
chat with them. Very likeable and nice, like a girl next door!
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