Information AboutLang Lang |
For the Australian town, see Lang Lang . Lang Lang (郎朗, , 1982 ) is a Pianist who hails from Shenyang , China . CHILDHOOD He began piano lessons at the age of three with Professor Zhu Ya-Fen. At the age of five he won the Shenyang Piano Competition and played his first public recital. He entered Beijing 's Central Music Conservatory when he was nine, studying under Professor Zhao Ping-Guo. At the age of 11, he won the first prize and award for outstanding artistic performance at the Fourth International Young Pianists Competition in Germany . In 1995 at 13 years of age, he played the complete Chopin 24 Etude s at Beijing Concert Hall and won first prize at the Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians' Competition in Japan , where he performed the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert broadcast by NHK Television . At 14 he was a featured soloist at the China National Symphony 's inaugural concert, broadcast by CCTV and attended by President Jiang Zemin . The following year he began studies with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia . PERFORMING AND RECORDING CAREER Lang Lang's breakthrough came in by storm... This could well be history in the making." In 2003 , he returned to the BBC Proms for the First Night concert with Leonard Slatkin . After his recent recital debut in the Berlin Philharmonic , the Berliner Zeitung wrote: "Lang Lang is a superb musical performer whose artistic touch is always in service of the music." Yet, the tide appears to be turning, and more recent reviews suggest that Lang's performance has become rather mannered and unsubtle; bombastic but not sufficiently musical. Lang Lang has performed with many of the major orchestras of the world, including the Boston Symphony , New York Philharmonic , Cleveland Orchestra , Detroit Symphony Orchestra , Philadelphia Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic , San Francisco Symphony , Berlin Philharmonic , London Philharmonic , Orchestre De Paris , Hong Kong Philharmonic , Sydney Symphony , Israel Philharmonic , and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra . He has collaborated with conductors including Daniel Barenboim , Charles Dutoit , Christoph Eschenbach , Valery Gergiev , Mariss Jansons , James Levine , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Simon Rattle , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Yuri Temirkanov , Michael Tilson Thomas , and Franz Welser-Möst . Lang Lang records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon . AWARDS The subject of a best-selling biography in China, Lang Lang has received numerous awards and has been seen by millions of television viewers throughout the world. He has appeared with Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in a performance that was broadcast by Russian National Television. His 2004 performance with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne was attended by 23,000 people and was broadcast internationally on TV. In the summer of 2002 , he became the first recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, in recognition of his distinguished musical talent. Besides his music career, he is passionately dedicated to sharing music with young people and was recently recognized for his efforts by the United Nations' Children's Fund ( UNICEF ) who appointed him their newest and youngest international Goodwill Ambassador. In this role, Lang Lang will garner support and raise funds for the survival and well-being of under-privileged children all over the world. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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