“I’m more into things poetic,” said Wang in an interview backstage at Davies Hall in June, where he is daunting Second Piano Concerto Béla Bartók played with the San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas at the bottom. “I mean, I want flashy, of course, but … I was five years younger when I was interested in the things …. I know ‘Two’ Bartók is an audience.”
Chinese pianist was born in San Francisco sleek show lasts for one week residency which Bartók, a chamber music concert with members of the orchestra, and includes a solo recital. I heard the show was not the usual high standards, but perhaps a bit rusty Wang. He previously canceled her San Francisco recital performances in June and earlier in Orange County, Calif., and Ottawa.
“I got my manager said:” I’m afraid my hands, “he said, referring to injuries that allegedly led him to cancel the event in California and Ottawa last year,” and I have a minor allergic reaction to. something, and I was sick He said: “I want you two consecutive weeks of relaxation.” Because I go on vacation without always …. With the same consideration here, ’cause I do Beethoven’ ‘Five next week with the Staatskapelle Berlin ….
“I think it may be psychological,” he added with a disarming openness, “as some of you to play again and again, and I really do not want to …. Anyway, I want to let my mind think about something else and not force up to boundary limitations. ”
Earl Blackburn, senior vice president at Opus 3 Artists talent traditional institutions, comparing the career management of Ms Wang to drive 747, while up to cruising altitude. “The most dangerous time in terms of instability,” he said, “or in this navigation mound, from the moment the plane took off, when it reaches 38,000 meters. Lumps may be somewhat unexpected or expected, but it is something you have to go through …. Not there is an artist, I spend more time in my career, but he deserves it. ”
Wang came to the attention of Mr. Blackburn, through recommendations from other clients, pianist Gary Graffman, with whom he studied at the elite Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Beginning in 2005, he made a series of well-received debut with a big orchestra. Some occur when he acted as a last minute replacement for the ill or pianist Radu Lupu unhealthy with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Martha Argerich with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Murray Perahia in the tour 11 cities with the American Academy of St. Martin in the Field. Such substitution, the pianist Ruth Laredo that the name “Red Cross” is a respectable performance for time-artist manager for their most promising new talent to introduce.
In 2009, Wang landed a multi-year contract with Deutsche Grammophon recordings exclusively. The first CD is “sonatas & Etudes.” With a repertoire ranging from 19th-century romantic Liszt to Ligeti György modernist, he designed, said Mr. Blackburn, in order to demonstrate the power and demonstrate “that he was serious..” Second, “Transformation”, the themes further in the repertoire Different Third, the concert pianist’s first recording, more popular-oriented: Rachmaninov favorite with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, albeit under Claudio Abbado recognized intellectual Milan, with whom she has appeared at the Lucerne Festival.
Of course, Wang interpretively continues to grow, hopefully avoiding the temptation to display the technical make the goal itself. The best, combining high accuracy with lyrical sophistication and emotional nuance. Two examples of her impressive disc “Transformation”, pianist, soulful performance of Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in F minor and his funny, very typical traversal of Igor Stravinsky’s Three Movements from “Petrushka”, a ballet based on the value its transcription.
For his debut recital at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium, 2800 seats, part of the prestigious Virtuoso Series Keyboard annual hall, Wang will perform five pieces and two pieces of Scriabin heavyweight solo piano literature: Sergei Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 and the Liszt B minor Sonata .. “He’s not just a phenomenal player,” said Clive Gillinson, Carnegie’s executive and artistic director, “but he also has the uncanny ability to connect with the audience.” Carnegie event is part of a 12-city North American tour pianist recital, which was still in Montreal , Calgary and Arcata, California
Wang began piano studies at age 6. He tightens his extraordinary skill on the track competition from China, and studied at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. When he was 14, his parents sent him to Canada to learn English and study at Mount Royal College Conservatory in Calgary. At 15, he was accepted by the Curtis. He graduated in 2008, and now run a grueling program of about 100 concerts per season.
“What I like about playing the piano,” he observes, is that “it is sort of an escape from life, which is perfect for an artist’s solitary We practice itself., We own class only the most time. Just before I go on stage -like, ‘who can help me? I do not think so.’ ”
In performance, “we communicate with people,” said Wang, “but the way we learn piece by looking into the best time for me., When people feel that I really communicate is when I really noticed them, or even where I am, and really in the music world. So I have to forget about them [the audience] to communicate. “He paused, then burst into girlish laughter. “Maybe what should I do with my friends!”
