For a pianist, difficulty comes in many flavors, from the most obvious — tossing off fistfuls of notes with fiendish precision and dexterity — to more delicate tasks like making a persuasive case for ...

Yuja Wang is a hot item in classical music these days and her recital Sunday afternoon for the Philharmonic Society of Orange County was one of the most anticipated events of the young season. She ...

There’s nothing supernatural in pianist Yuja Wang’s explanation of how her childhood fascination with music evolved. Yes, she was able to hear Chopin speaking to her from beyond the grave, but only in ...

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 ...

A chilly autumn breeze had Santa Feans walking briskly on their way to the Lensic Performing Arts Center on the evening of Oct. 10, but the weather proved almost balmy compared to what awaited inside: ...

Music lovers attuned to the extraordinary rise of the young Chinese-born pianist Yuja Wang - which includes many of us in the Bay Area, where she's made a number of stunning concert appearances - have ...

As one might expect, there is some debate in the classical world about whether little red dresses (or orange, black and purple) make for proper attire. And whether all those cameras with uploads on ...

Any time Yuja Wang and Michael Tilson Thomas share the stage, something remarkable happens: a synergy that makes the music at hand sound fresh and new. It happened again Wednesday evening at Davies ...

Any time Yuja Wang and Michael Tilson Thomas share the stage, something remarkable happens: a synergy that makes the music at hand sound fresh and new. It happened again Wednesday evening at Davies ...