{"id":97111,"date":"2026-11-02T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97111"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:48:16","slug":"piano-megastar-yuja-wang-on-her-next-extreme-feat-as-she-returns-to-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97111","title":{"rendered":"Piano megastar Yuja Wang on her next extreme feat as she returns to Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/30\/fc382be9-ef66-46b0-973d-87759034afcc_8c61914c.jpg?itok=ezdTEw1g&amp;v=1793332425\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yuja Wang will be juggling two things when she returns to Hong Kong on November 9: playing both of Brahms\u2019 piano concertos in the same concert and conducting the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard while she does it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Beijing-born megastar will play in two concerts to open Premiere Performances\u2019 20th anniversary season. On the first night, at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, she will play-conduct Brahms\u2019 <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Piano Concerto No 1<\/em> and <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">No 2<\/em> back to back. The following evening will see her switch to a jazz mode, playing Kapustin\u2019s <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Fourth Piano Concerto<\/em> and Tsfasman\u2019s <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Jazz Suite<\/em> for piano and orchestra.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pianists who direct an orchestra from the keyboard \u2013 including such greats as Mitsuko Uchida, Daniel Barenboim and Andras Schiff \u2013 tend to prefer Mozart or Beethoven\u2019s pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3372661\/piano-megastar-yuja-wang-her-next-extreme-feat-she-returns-hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuja Wang will be juggling two things when she returns to Hong Kong on November 9: playing both of Brahms\u2019 piano concertos in the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3212,9157,3569,5231,32342,29302,2648,1326,32343],"class_list":["post-97111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-extreme","tag-feat","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-megastar","tag-piano","tag-returns","tag-wang","tag-yuja","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}