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Celebrated pianist at Hayes Center
benefit August 10
Young keyboard
phenomenon Yuja Wang will perform at the Hayes Center
in Blowing Rock this Sunday evening. The event is a fundraiser
for the new performing arts center. |
Yuja Wang, proclaims the San Francisco Classical Voice, is
an “exceptionally gifted debutant.” On the heels of
a February 2008 performance in the California city’s Herbst
Theatre in which the Chinese artist ripped through finger-breaking
arrangements from such monoliths as Liszt, Bartok, Ravel and
Rimsky-Korsakov, the publication detailed how “Wang put
the audience under her spell with her controlled, precise pianism,
which was both warm and richly colored.”
High Country residents have the chance to hear this internationally
acclaimed and multi-award-winning musician when she takes center
stage for one night only. The concert will take place at the
Mariam and Robert Hayes Performing Arts Center on Sunday, August
10th at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.
The concert is a fundraiser for the Mariam and Robert Hayes
Performing Arts Center. Proceeds will benefit the Center’s
Capital Fund (retirement of the construction debt and maintenance
of the facility), Education Endowment (continuation and expansion
of TOPs and arts outreach and programming) and General Fund
(operations of the Center and enhancing the annual budget).
A second fundraiser, a concert by the classical trio Time for
Three, who, like Yuja, are brought here with the help of local
opera singer Brenda Boozer, will be held August 18.
Born in Beijing in 1987, Yuja began studying music at age 6
and was drawn to the piano. Eventually enrolling at the Central
Conservatory of Music in Beijing, her earliest public performances
took place in China, Australia and Germany, and she quickly
began accumulating a surplus of international accolades and
awards. Alongside her celebrated performance with the San Francisco
Symphony, Yuja has already made a number of illustrious debuts
with other esteemed symphonies such as Vancouver Symphony Orchestra,
Tonhalle Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, China Philharmonic,
Nagoya Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony,
St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony, among
multiple others, and is a regular participant at the Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival.
In the summers of 2002 and 2003, she worked with renowned piano
pedagogue John Perry at the Aspen Music Festival, where she
won the concerto competition in her first year of attendance.
For the past 4 years, Yuja has attended The Curtis Institute
of Music in Philadelphia, as a student of Gary Graffman. In
September 2005, she also received the prestigious 2006 Gilmore
Young Artist Award.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the Hayes Center box office
at 828.295.9627, or may be purchased online at http://www.HayesCenter.org.
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