Twenty-two year old Chinese pianist Yuja Wang is widely recognised for playing that combines the spontaneity and fearless imagination of youth with the discipline and precision of a mature artist. Regularly lauded for her controlled, prodigious technique, Yuja’s command of the piano has been described as “astounding” and “superhuman,” and she has been praised for her authority over the most complex technical demands of the repertoire, the depth of her musical insight, as well as her fresh interpretations and graceful, charismatic stage presence.

By virtue of the collaboration of the Teatro Pérez Galdós Canary Islands’ foundation and the Philharmonic Society of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Yuja Wang is to offer a piano recital demonstrating her artistic talents, playing works by SERGEI RACHMANINOFF, FRANZ SCHUBERT and LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN.

Born in Beijing in 1987, Yuja began studying piano at age six, and graduated at the Central conservatory of Music in Beijing. Following three years, from 199 to 2001, at the Morningside Music summer programme at Calgary’s Mount Royal College, an artistic and cultural exchange programme between Canada and China, Yuja moved to Canada and began studying at the Mount Royal College conservatory. At the age of 15, she moved to the United States to study with Gary Graffman at The Curtis Institute of Music, from where she graduated in 2008. Two years previously, in 2006, Yuja received the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award.