Born in Beijing , she began learning piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. By age 21, she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist and signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon. Wang comes from an artistic family. Her mother is a dancer and her father is a percussionist.
Both live in Beijing. Wang began learning the piano at age six. At the age of fifteen, Wang entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia , where she studied for five years with Gary Graffman and graduated in Graffman said that Wang's technique impressed him during her audition, but "it was the intelligence and good taste" of her interpretations that distinguished her.
In , Wang won the concerto competition at the Aspen Music Festival. She made her North American debut in Ottawa in the β season, replacing Radu Lupu performing that Beethoven concerto with Pinchas Zukerman conducting.
On September 11, , Wang was named a biennial Gilmore Young Artist Award winner, given to the most promising pianists age 22 and younger. Vail Music Festival. The following season, she performed with the orchestra under Lorin Maazel during a tour of Japan and Korea by the Philharmonic. In March , Wang's breakthrough came when she replaced Martha Argerich in concerts held in Boston. In , Wang toured the U.
The performance was broadcast live through the orchestra's Digital Concert Hall. The movement was restarted 20 minutes later. Wang has performed with all the major orchestras in the U. From the opening piece, an early Scriabin prelude, Ms. Wang played this Chopinesque music, all rippling left-hand figures, and dreamy melodic lines, with a delicacy, poetic grace, and attention to inner musical details that commanded respect. After intermission she offered a rhapsodic, uncommonly nuanced account of the formidable Liszt Sonata in B minor.
