Yuja Wang conducts Bartok
OrchestrasAt the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, apparently.
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Least flattering picture I’ve seen of her on this site.
You’re slipping, NL
Is this really news? Can we at least provide some kind of context or critical analysis? Sometimes it just comes off as obsession…
She would make a kick ass conductor, she should pursue this seriously, and succeed Dudamel in LA or Makela in Paris, she is already a proven audience favorite, box office guarantee, the preemminet living interpereter and performer of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, and the cherry on the cake for the woke crowd, a woman, Asian, but that’s irrelevant in her case.
And the whip cream on top of the cherry on top of the cake: who could have a jont deal with all the biggest fashion houses, I see Gautier or Versace, a different outfit for each piece she conducts
You have a talent for irony!
I don’t know the Bartok 2nd concerto very well, but it doesn’t seem like something one could conduct from the piano.
Did she do a reading with the school’s orchestra? That’s kind of cool; something they’ll definitely remember.
Take that, Lydia Tár!
Now that she is also a female conductor (occacional, but still), can we hope she’ll finally receive more positive coverage?
This is your idea of an article?
I’m pretty sure I have seen her play and conduct before somewhere on YouTube. She is an immensely talented musician and only in her thirties. There are certain pieces I have heard her play that I rate the best. There are other great modern pianists of course and most have a niche in which they excel. We live in exciting times with great interpretations from artists who are exposed to all the great recordings of the past with all the different performance styles to learn from.
Absolutely. A few weeks ago I heard Yuja perform Rachmaninoff 2, 1 and Rhapsody. Last Sunday I heard Richard Goode perform late Beethoven. Both pianists gave insightful, idiomatic and memorable performances. The rest is noise.
Yeah, but Goode isn’t a woman …..
A high profile guest artist, marking another step in SFCM’s ambitious thrust to provide serious West Coast competition to Juilliard.
Nobody at Juilliard cares.
The only West Coast competition is Colburn-
Yay!!!!! Finally a woman conducts Bartok!!!!! I’ve waited my whole life for this moment!!!!! So fed up with and disappointed by the male-led Bartok renditions!!!!!
But there´s Edwin Outwater in the foreground to help if something goes wrong!
Conductor, pianist, commentator, educator, model, fashion setter, or even go to, say, Med School and become a Doctor, or anything else, I’ve heard interviews with Yuja and believe she can do ANYTHING she decides to do; and her performance of everything, classical & not, especially Rach & Prokofiev, is just mesmerizing!