Pianist Lang Lang (Introduction)

The young pianist Lang Lang is well-known in various music holy places around the world. He has shown his extraordinary ability to communicate with the audience with his profound personal charm. abilities and has established himself as one of the most exciting and exciting preeminent pianists of our time. He is the first Chinese pianist to have collaborated with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the five major American symphony orchestras.

Lang Lang was born in Shenyang, China, in 1982. He studied piano with Professor Zhu Yafen from the Shenyang Conservatory of Music at the age of 3. At the age of 9, he entered the Central Conservatory of Music and studied with Professor Zhao Pingguo. At the age of 11, he won first place in the 4th International Young Pianist Competition in Germany and was awarded the Outstanding Artistic Performance Award. In 1995, Lang Lang, who was only 13 years old, performed Chopin's 24 etudes at a recital at the Beijing Concert Hall. In the second Tchaikovsky International Youth Music Competition held in Japan in the same year, he stood out again and won the Rosette. HK performed the Chopin Concerto No. 2 he performed with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra at the award ceremony. Global live broadcast. In September 1996, Lang Lang was invited to perform at the premiere concert of the China Symphony Orchestra. The next year, he was admitted to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with excellent results, where he studied under Dean Gary Graffman.

In August 1999, 17-year-old Lang Lang replaced the unwell Andre Watts on stage at the Ravinia Music Festival and performed Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A dramatic success. Since then, the young artist has demonstrated his extraordinary talent to the world. In April 2001, Lang Lang performed at Carnegie Hall with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov, and the tickets were sold out. The New York Times commented: "He is shocking!" In June of the same year, he performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Savalish in front of an audience of 8,000 people at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In August, it had its London premiere at the BBC Proms. The Times of London commented: "Lang Lang took the packed Albert Hall by storm - this can go down in history."

So far, Lang Lang has met Lorraine one after another. They have had close cooperation with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maazel and the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Franz Welzer-M?st. Other world-famous conductors and orchestras include Zubin May. Tower with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas with the San Francisco Symphony, Maris Jansons with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Savalish with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Valery Gergiev with Kilo Husband Theater Orchestra and more. Since 2001, Lang Lang has held solo concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Chicago Symphony Hall, the Kimmel Hall in Philadelphia, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus. In 2002, in recognition of Lang Lang's outstanding talent, he became the first Bernstein Prize winner at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In 2003, Lang Lang collaborated with Leonard Slatkin to perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 at the opening concert of the BBC series of celebrations at the Royal Albert Festival in London, and performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He will also collaborate with Barenboim at the season opening concert. Recently, as an artist under the Steinway Company, Lang Lang was awarded a gold medal at the company's 150th anniversary celebration, becoming the first person to receive this honor.

Lang Lang has shown a strong interest in traditional Chinese music. He has collaborated with his father, Lang Guoren, to perform traditional Chinese repertoire in his solo concerts. At the Carnegie Hall recital in early 2003, Lang Lang performed Tan Dun's "Memories of Eight Watercolor Paintings," which had its world premiere at the Kennedy Center at the beginning of the year.

Lang Lang is the first Chinese-American pianist to record with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The record released globally by DG in July this year was a collaboration with the orchestra under the command of Daniel Barenboim. Lang Lang's exceptional talent, paired with his ebullient personality, make him an ideal ambassador for classical music today. In June 2002, CNN conducted an exclusive interview with him and introduced his artistic path and achievements in detail in three series.

This summer, Lang Lang appeared on NBC's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno and ABC's "Good Morning China." His concerto concerts at Lincoln Center and the BBC were broadcast live by PBS.

Lang Lang has become the focus of reports by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other media. He was also selected as one of the "Twenty Young People Changing the World" by the American "Young People" magazine.

Lang Lang became famous in China because of the book "Dad's Heart Is So High - Piano Genius Lang Lang and His Father", so all parents who have a piano boy in their family remember this A brilliant name and a father who gave up his career for his son. However, Lang Lang is actually more famous internationally. The latest teen idol survey in the United States shows that Lang Lang is as famous as Yao Ming - this is simply a miracle, because the popularity of the NBA is well-known to everyone, but Lang Lang is, after all, a A professional pianist who makes a living by playing elegant classical music