Lang Lang, Pianist lang lang, pianist February 27March 1, 2003 lang lang took a sold-out Albert Hallby storm This could well be history in the making. (The Times of London). http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/aboutus/guest_artists/lang.htm
Extractions: The Times of London "He is stunning." ( New York Times "The biggest, most exciting keyboard talent encountered in many years." ( Chicago Tribune Born in Shen Yang, China, Lang Lang began piano studies at the age of three with Professor Zhu Ya-Fen at the Shen Yang Conservatory of Music. At the age of nine he entered the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing, and in 1997 was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music where he currently studies with Gary Graffman. He won his first competition, the Shen Yang Piano Competition, at the age of five. Other awards include first prize in the Fifth Zing Hai Cup Piano Competition in Beijing, first prize and outstanding artistic performance in the Fourth International Young Pianists Competition in Germany, and first prize at the Second Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians Competition held in 1995 in Japan. During the 2001-2002 season Lang Lang made subscription debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, toured Europe with the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg with Christoph Eschenbach conducting, and toured Asia with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov. He performed with Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra in their final subscription concerts at the Academy of Music and toured with this orchestra to Beijing, performing to an audience of 8,000 at the Great Hall of the People. During the 2000-01 season, he also made recital debuts at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre in Washington, D.C., Wigmore Hall in London and the Louvre in Paris.
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Extractions: Fasten your seatbelts. Heres what one Vancouver critic wrote when Lang Lang made his Canadian debut in our 1999/2000 recital series: He is a phenomenon who, with his fecund gifts, will soon earn praise as one of the most important musicians of the next century. At that time, this Chinese-born pianist was just 16. Two years later, Lang Lang has only gained in his depth of wisdom and understanding, stunning audiences everywhere. Every note is proof of a maturity way beyond his years. Technically superb, unafraid to tackle the most challenging of works, he is an innate musician who delves to the very heart of the music he plays, uncovering new depths of emotion.
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Extractions: Special Dinner and Concert by Lang Lang to benefit the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival Endowment Fund March 22, 2003 Join the astonishing pianist Lang Lang for a lovely benefit dinner at the Manning House , 450 West Paseo Redondo in downtown Tucson, followed by a concert at the Leo Rich Theater. This is truly a once in a lifetime experience, and a wonderful opportunity to listen to an artist in the beginning of a career sure to scale the heights. Cocktails 5:30 PM Dinner 6:15 PM Concert 8:00 PM Benefit dinner and concert $125 per person Lang Lang concert only Lang Lang can also be heard on March 23 as part of our Piano and Friends series. Lang Lang's website Tickets will be mailed approximately ONE MONTH before the concert. Mail orders to AFCM, P.O. Box 40802, Tucson, AZ 85745. For more information call (520) 577-3769 Variations on the name "Abegg" for Piano, in F Major, Op. 1 Schumann Piano Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI/50
Extractions: Lang Lang, the 19-year-old Chinese pianist who was making his subscription series debut, enjoys throwing everything he has at the listener. That's one reason he scored such a sensation at his local debut in 1999 at Ravinia where he substituted at the eleventh hour for Andre Watts. Since then, he has become a festival mainstay, appearing twice more with the CSO as well as in recital. This summer he will share a residency with his chief mentor, Christoph Eschenbach. Worries that a young pianist so sure of himself, so brimming with the joy of making music, would suffer from a certain lack of interpretive discipline were not entirely allayed by his reading of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 on Thursday. Some thought he pulled the music around recklessly. Others found his emotive swooning at the keyboard distracting. Lang, it would appear, has every gift save the gift of restraint. But if you closed your eyes and listened, you heard a stunning performance. The soloist's "Rach 2" amounted to a wild musical thrill ride that challenged guest conductor Manfred Honeck and the orchestra to hold on tight. No pianist today takes such liberties in this melody-drenched showpiece, or brings them off this well. His big tone reaching deep into the keys, Lang thundered and wept. He sped up, slowed down, bent entire paragraphs with a generous rubato bordering on distortion. His Adagio was a lyrical reverie in slow-mo. All this with piston fingers that could do anything.
Extractions: Encore Series: Prominent Young Chinese Pianist Lang Lang To Showcase His Extraordinary Skill "Lang Lang is a prodigious talent ..." "He is the biggest, most exciting young keyboard talent ..." - Chicago Tribune Presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, "Piano Recital by Lang Lang" will be staged at 8pm on April 21 (Monday) at the Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Celebrated in all the music capitals of the world, Lang Lang has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to connect with audiences on a deeply personal level and has established himself, at only 20, as one of the most exciting pianists of the time. He has already performed with the world's most distinguished orchestras from New York to London and given recitals from Paris to Tokyo. Career highlights include a live recorded Proms debut at London's Royal Albert Hall and a sold-out Carnegie Hall debut. His Philadelphia Orchestra performance at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing drew 8,000 people. Born in Shenyang, China, Lang Lang has won numerous awards including first prize at the Second Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians' Competition and the first-ever Leonard Bernstein Award for distinguished musical talent. A graduate of Curtis, he has two Billboard bestsellers and has been featured on CNN, The Wall Street Journal and Teen People.
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Extractions: Lang Lang Since his dramatic and triumphant last-minute appearance at the Ravinia Festival in August 1999 when he filled in for an indisposed Andr Watts, Lang Lang has burst upon the international musical scene with unparalleled excitement and acclaim. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the biggest, most exciting keyboard talent encountered in many years and already performing with the world's leading orchestras, this captivating 19-year-old pianist has shown himself to be an artist of significant maturity and depth. When Lang Lang made his sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in April 2001 with the Baltimore Symphony under Yuri Temirkanov, The New York Times wrote: "He is stunning." In August 2001 he made his London debut at the BBC Proms performing Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Temirkanov. The Times wrote: "Lang Lang took a sold-out Albert Hall by storm. This could well be history in the making." Now resident in the US, Lang Lang performed on the City Hall's new Steinway after talking to Trisha about his career to date.
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Extractions: Lang Lang, piano Press Release: March 24, 2000 PIANIST LANG LANG TO EXHIBIT EXCEPTIONAL TALENTS AT LIED CENTER Lang Lang has proven to be a pianist of maturity and depth of performance well beyond his 16 years. Excelling during early piano studies in his native China, he is now a student at the Curtis Institute of Music. Lang Lang has won numerous international piano competitions and performed with the Moscow Philharmonic, the Boston Chamber Orchestra and the National Symphony of China. See him as he launches what's sure to be a superstar career. Generous support provided by The Cookie Company. Johnny Carson Theater
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Extractions: Lang Lang £ÛPianist£Ý ¡¡¡¡This past June Lang Lang toured to Beijing with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Sawallisch, performing to an audience of 8,000 at the Great Hall of the People. Last season he jperformed with the San Francisco, St. Louis and Danish National Radio symphonies and the Hall¨¦ Orchestra. He gave recitals in Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Los Angeles, Munich, St. Pdetdersburg (Russia), Vancouver and Zurich's Tonhalle. ¡¡¡¡Born in Shen Yang, China, Lang Lang began his piano studies at the age of three with professor Zhu Ya-Fen from the Shen Yang Conservatory of Music. At the age of nine he entered the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing, where he studied with Professor Zhao Ping-Guo. Excelling in all aspects of his classes, he was accepted in 1997 into the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he currently studies with Gary Graffman, the Director of the Institute. ¡¡¡¡Lang Lang has won numerous awards at international competitions beginning at the age of five, when he won first prize in the Shen Yang Piano Competition after which he gave his first public recital. He won first prize in the Fifth Xing Hai Cup Piano Competition in Beijing, first prize and outstanding artistic performance in the Fourth International Young Pianists Competition in Germany and first prize at the Second Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians Competition held in 1995 in Japan.
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Extractions: CLEMSON An internationally acclaimed pianist will perform at Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Performing Arts July 15 at 8 p.m. Lang Lang, at age 16 already the winner of the Tchaikovsky International Young Pianist Competition and the Xing Hai Cup Piano Competition, has been hailed for his maturity and depth of performance. This is the first ever summer concert in the Utsey Chamber Music Series. All Utsey Series events are free. "I am very excited to be able to present such an exciting young artist to our audience," said Lillian Harder, director of the Brooks Center. "Lang Lang is widely regarded as one of the most talented young musicians in the world." The pianist has performed with the Moscow Philharmonic, the Boston Chamber Orchestra, the Sendai Symphony of Japan, the National Symphony Orchestra of Singapore and the National Symphony of China. He played at the debut performance of the China Symphony Orchestra in September of 1996 with President Jiang Ze Min in attendance. Lang Lang will perform selections by Haydn, Schumann, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky and Balakirev.
Extractions: Most of what you need to know about Lang Lang came in a single note during an encore to his recital Friday night. The piece was "Stars and Stripes Forever." And the note was the pickup to the more lyrical melodic section - you know, the quiet tune to which everyone likes to make up words. The pianist used that one note to send a message. He held it good and long, so long that it broke the momentum, like a tenor holding a high C. With it, he seemed to say, "I have just as big an influence here as the composer, and here's who I am." The audience got it. Laughter rippled across the crowd. That Lang Lang can calculate the emotional response of a couple thousand people at a time is why he might be the buzzing-est piano name in America right now. Locals have long known him, through performances as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music and soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Kimmel Center presented him Friday in what it billed as his Philadelphia recital debut.
Extractions: Chinese-born, Philadelphia-based pianist Lang Lang signed a five-year, five-disc contract with the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label, according to an announcement yesterday. The first recording sessions will be held Feb. 20-21 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim conducting. The repertoire will be two of Lang Lang's most requested repertoire, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto in G minor The release is planned to coincide with Lang Lang's late-July appearance with the Mostly Mozart Festival, which will be telecast on PBS's Live From Lincoln Center Future recording projects will include the two Chopin concertos, a Rachmaninoff concerto, and some solo recitals whose repertoire is yet to be decided.
Extractions: Sixteen year old pianist Lang Lang, began his musical studies in Shanghai at the age of three. This award-winning young pianist is currently studying with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music. Lang Lang has concertized throughout the Far East and his recent debut with the Baltimore Symphony has already resulted in a re-engagement. "...Lang Lang, a sixteen-year-old pianist from whom we should expect great things in the decades to come." BALTIMORE SUN LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 - 1827)
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Extractions: SUN MUSIC CRITIC Youth rushes in where experience fears to tread. Probably only a teenager like the 16-year-old Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang, now studying with the great pianist Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, would have the confidence to take on as heavy a program as he played for the Vancouver Recital Society on Sunday. It was a program that only a Horowitz would risk: the massive Rachmaninov Second Sonata, Brahms in old age, one of the great Chopin sonatas and more. Lang Lang (he goes by this one compound name) started with an early Beethoven sonata, the Opus 2, No. 1, which is difficult enough. The cocky look on his face confirmed the evident enjoyment he was taking in the music, in its wit and the vitality of its argument. It was a joy to hear playing like this -natural, full of life and surprise, every phrasing there for a reason. Yes, but the Chopin Sonata in B minor was up next. How could he possibly be up to that? It calls for nobility and lyric heroism, and poses many problems of tempo, phrasing and pedalling. The slow movement, calling for profound feeling, is very hard to sustain, and the last movement is volcanic. He supplied it all: maturity, meditation, faultless technique and beautiful, non-percussive tone.'
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