Taige Wang, piano recital

ClevelandClassical.com: “His performance was incredible—strong, virtuosic, and appropriately mischievous.”

New York Concert Review: “Mercurial mood changes, extreme dynamics, and elements of atonality all contribute to the difficulty of this repertoire, but the young Mr. Wang was up to the challenge!”

Fourteen-year-old Taige Wang, a Young Steinway Artist and a young scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, studies piano at The Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky. Previously, he studied piano with William Grant Naboré.

Taige began studying piano and gave his first public performance at the age of four. The following year, he performed live on China Central Television and won his first competition at the regional Steinway Sons Competition. At the age of seven, he gave his first full solo recital by invitation of Steinway Sons.

Since then, Taige has accumulated numerous victories in piano competitions, including the YAMAHA Piano E Competition, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Chicago International Music Competition, and the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Piano Competition, among others.

In 2023, as the youngest competitor, Taige reached the quarterfinals of the Cliburn Junior Competition and was one of the three finalists at the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Piano Competition, where he performed with the renowned Cleveland Orchestra.

Taige appeared on NPR’s *From the Top* in 2021 and at the *From the Top* Gala in 2022, where he was the youngest of the three musicians selected nationally. He has performed at various prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, the Nixon Presidential Library Museum, Lincoln Center, Severance Hall, and the Henan Grand Theater in China.

Taige studies composition with Bruce Adolphe. As an award-winning composer, his piano trio *Chopin vs Chopin 2.0* was commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and he debuted it at Alice Tully Hall on April 16, 2023.

Taige received the American President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award in 2022.

Programme:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

Franz Liszt
Transcendental Études, S.139
No. 4 Mazeppa D minor
No. 5 Feux follets B♭ major

Béla Bartók
Two Romanian Dances, Op. 8a
No.1 Allegro vivace
No.2 Poco allegro

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Études-Tableaux, Op. 39
No.5 Appassionato in E♭ minor
No.6 Allegro in A minor
No.9 Allegro moderato. Tempo di marcia in D major

The program is subject to change.