The Gate of Art 2008 - Concert by Wang Jian and Yale Philharmonic Orchestra July 22, 2008

Time: 2008/7/22
Venue: Forbidden City Music Hall
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Performer: Yale Philharmonic Orchestra of Yale University School of Music
Cellist: Wang Jian
Conductor: Xian Xinyi

Programme (subject to change)
Bernstain: Symphonic Suite from West Side Story
Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos
Dvorak: Symphony No.9 "From the New world"

About Wangjian
Wang Jian is called "World-class cellist" - Seiji Ozawa

Wang Jian, the cellist from Shanghai,was born in 1968 to a musical family, and began studying the cello withhis father at the age of four. At the age of nine he was enrolled inthe Shanghai Conservatory, where he made rapid progress.

Wang first came to worldwide fame at the age of ten, thanks to Isaac Stern, who was in Chinamaking a documentary video "From Mao to Mozart." Stern discovered theyoung prodigy and featured him in the video. Even at that youthful age,Wang played with a beautiful, serious mastery of the instrument.

Duringthe decade following Wang studied at Yale and also at Julliard. Hischief Western teacher has been Aldo Parisot (who also taught thewell-known Ralph Kirshbaum). Isaac Stern is also still very much hisfriend.

Wang is famous in Chinaas well as in the West. At the age of eleven he performed theSaint-Saens Cello Concerto with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra; and atfourteen he was selected by Chinato go with a select group of Chinese musicians to perform for PresidentJimmy Carter at the White House. Wang performed with the BostonSymphony on its tour of China,and was declared by Seiji Ozawa to be a "world-class cellist." When theCentral Philharmonic Orchestra of China made its first U.S. tour, it was Jian Wang who was chosen to be soloist, performing the Elgar Concerto at the Kennedy Center, and in major cities across the nation.

Wang has a CD out on the Deloslabel (DE 3097), in which he plays a recital, accompanied by CarolRosenberger on the piano. On this CD he performs works by Chopin,Barber and Schumann. The Barber songs are unavailable on disk anywhereelse, and are extremely beautiful, and well played. On the recording,Wang plays a David Wiebe cello, given to him by Aldo Parisot.

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