Xiayin Wang

XIAYIN WANG BURSTS UPON
THE AMERICAN MUSIC SCENE
Young Chinese Pianist Winning New
Friends for Classical Music

NY.... A Carnegie Hall debut with Symphony behind her and glowing reviews from her first recording "Introducing Xiayin Wang" now starting to blossom, there is no doubt that this charming young pianist is starting to set the classical music world on fire. "...breath of repertoire, sensitivity of touch, and a beautiful overall sound...Wang is quite an exciting player" raved the All Music Guide and The New York Sun reported " A poetic touch" while the November issue of The Classical Music Magazine - Fanfare headlined their feature article - Discipline and Heart: A Conversation with Xiayin Wang. The story/review by Peter J. Rabinowitz covers the differences growing up as a pianist at the Shanghai Conservatory of music where her training and the discipline set the stage for her additional schooling here in the United States. He has her talk refreshingly about music today - yesterday and of course, her "favorite" pianists. He then talks of her "elastically phrased, velvet-toned Ravel, which builds to a kaleidoscopic climax, her ecstatic performance of the Scriabin Waltz, her glowering Vers la flamme, and, perhaps best of all, her impassioned accounts of Earl Wild's etudes on Gershwin. Wang speaks in her interview about the importance of "discipline," but it's clear from these performances that she's referring to the kind of discipline that liberates, not the kind that enslaves...it nearly always feels spontaneous." Before arriving in the US from her native China where she had completed her studies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Xiayin Wang (pronounced shy-inn ) had garnered an enviable record of first prize awards and special honors and had played as soloist with China's leading orchestras. Here she studied at the heralded Manhattan School of Music and won it's Eisenberg Concerto Competition, as well as the noted Roy M. Rubinstein Award. In addition to a wide and eclectic repertoire, she also has a love for chamber works and plans to record in this area in the coming year. New CD's, video on YouTube and MySpace, a recital at Carnegie's Zenkel Hall in New York and extensive touring this coming season promise to carry this exciting artist to her next adventures on the world's great concert stages.

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• Classical
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• Arts

[Pedencio]

She's a star in my book !

[piano6861]

Congratulations on the success!