![]() His performance style has been referred to as having "soggy rhythms and heavy phrasing," and as being "truly boring", "just bad" and "unendurable". Lang Lang's performances have also been criticized. He has the flair and great communicative power." National Public Radio's Morning Edition remarked that "Lang Lang has conquered the classical world with dazzling technique and charisma." It is often noted that Lang successfully straddles two worlds - classical prodigy and rock-like "superstar", a phenomenon summed up by The Times journalist Emma Pomfret, who wrote, "I can think of no other classical artist who has achieved Lang Lang's broad appeal without dumbing down." Lang has been praised by musicians and critics around the world - the conductor Jahja Ling remarked, "Lang Lang is special because of his total mastery of the piano. A Chicago Tribune music critic called him "the biggest, most exciting young keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attending piano recitals". ![]() Lang Lang has given sold out recitals and concerts in many major cities and was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Wiener Philharmoniker and some top American orchestras. The following year he began studies with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. When 14, he was a featured soloist at the China National Symphony's inaugural concert, which was broadcast by China Central Television and attended by President Jiang Zemin. 2 with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert broadcast by NHK Television. ![]() 25 études by Frédéric Chopin at the Beijing Concert Hall and, the same year, won first place at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Japan, playing F. In 1995, at 13 years of age, he played the Op. In 1993, he won the Xing Hai Cup Piano Competition in Beijing and, in 1994, was awarded first prize for outstanding artistic performance at the fourth International Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen, Germany. Lang was later admitted into the conservatory where he studied under Professor Zhao Ping-Guo. This reminded Lang of his love of the instrument. 330 she asked him to play along with the second movement. The music teacher at his state school noticed Lang's sadness, and decided to comfort him by playing a record of W.A. When Lang was 9 years old, he was near his audition for Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, and, having difficulties with his lessons, was expelled from his piano tutor's studio for "lack of talent". At the age of 5, he won first place at the Shenyang Piano Competition and performed his first public recital. He began lessons with Professor Zhu Ya-Fen at age 3. According to Lang, this first contact with Western music is what motivated him to learn piano. At the age of two, Lang watched the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto which features the Hungarian Rhapsody No. ![]() The Chinese pianist, Lang Lang, was normn to a musician father, Lang Guoren, a Manchurian, who specializes in the erhu, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. ![]()
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