Chinese pianist (born 1982)
Lang Lang
(
Chinese
:
?朗
;
pinyin
:
Lang L?ng
; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese pianist who has performed with major orchestras around the world and appeared at many leading concert halls. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the
Berlin Philharmonic
, the
Vienna Philharmonic
and many of the top American orchestras.
[1]
In 2000, 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."
[2]
Early life and education
[
edit
]
Lang Lang was born in
Liaoning
, China, in 1982 to a family of the
Manchu
Niohuru
clan. His father Lang Guoren is a musician, playing the
erhu
.
[3]
Both his father and mother, also a musician, were displaced to work on rural rice farms in the country during the
Cultural Revolution
, before Lang was born.
[4]
The
Tom and Jerry
episode
The Cat Concerto
, which features
Franz Liszt
's
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
., motivated two-year-old Lang to learn the piano.
[5]
[6]
He started lessons with Zhu Yafen at age three, won first place at the Shenyang Piano Competition and performed his first public recital when he was five.
[7]
When Lang was nine, he was expelled from his piano tutor's studio for "lack of talent".
[8]
[4]
Another music teacher at his state school noticed Lang and asked him to play the second movement of Mozart's
Piano Sonata No. 10
, which reminded Lang of his love for the instrument.
[8]
Lang later studied under Zhao Ping-Guo at Beijing's
Central Conservatory of Music
.
[9]
Lang won the Xinghai National Piano Competition in Beijing in 1993 and first prize for outstanding artistic performance at the International Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen, Germany, in 1994.
[7]
In 1995, Lang played the
Chopin
etudes at the
Beijing Concert Hall
, won the
International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians
in Japan,
[7]
and performed as soloist with the
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
.
[10]
Fourteen-year-old Lang was a featured soloist for the
China National Symphony
's inaugural concert in September 1996, then Chinese president
Jiang Zemin
met Lang Lang after this performance.
Lang and his father moved to the United States in 1997, so Lang could pursue studies with
Gary Graffman
at the
Curtis Institute of Music
in
Philadelphia
.
[11]
[12]
Career
[
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]
Lang has been noted by musicians and critics around the world?the conductor
Jahja Ling
remarked: "Lang Lang is special because of his total mastery of the piano... He has the flair and great communicative power."
[13]
National Public Radio
's
Morning Edition
remarked: "Lang Lang has conquered the classical world with dazzling technique and charisma."
[14]
It is often noted that Lang successfully straddles two worlds?classical prodigy and rock-like "superstar", a phenomenon summed up by
The Times
(London) journalist Emma Pomfret, who wrote, "I can think of no other classical artist who has achieved Lang Lang's broad appeal without dumbing down."
[15]
Lang's performance style was controversial when he stormed into the classical music scene in 1999. At that time, pianist
Earl Wild
called him "the
J. Lo
of the piano."
[16]
Others have described him as immature, but admitted that his ability to "conquer crowds with youthful bravado" is phenomenal among classical musicians.
[17]
His maturity in subsequent years was reported by
The New Yorker
: "The ebullient Lang Lang is maturing as an artist."
[17]
In April 2009, when
Time
magazine included Lang in its list of the 100 most influential people,
Herbie Hancock
described his playing as "so sensitive and so deeply human", commenting: "You hear him play, and he never ceases to touch your heart."
[18]
In 2001, after a
Carnegie Hall
debut with
Yuri Temirkanov
, he traveled to Beijing with the
Philadelphia Orchestra
on a tour celebrating its 100th anniversary, during which he performed to an audience of 8,000 at the
Great Hall of the People
.
[19]
The same year, he made his
BBC Proms
debut, prompting a music critic of the British newspaper
The Times
to write, "Lang Lang took a sold-out
Royal Albert Hall
by storm... This could well be history in the making".
[19]
In 2003, he returned to the BBC Proms for the First Night concert with
Leonard Slatkin
. After his recital debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, the
Berliner Zeitung
wrote: "Lang Lang is a superb musical performer whose artistic touch is always in service of the music".
[20]
In 2004, Lang was featured in Radio Television Hong Kong's TV documentary Outstanding Young Chinese Musicians.However, recent reviews have been mixed. Lately, a plethora of music critics have protested against too much showmanship; not enough care; not enough sensitivity. But audiences continue to adore him. Lang has become one of those artists whose career prospers outside the boundaries of critical approval. The pianist is bemused by the backlash: "You get many good reviews from the beginning," he says, "and then the critics start criticising you. It's strange. The things they liked you for first?unique, fresh?they say is great. And then later they say you're too fresh, too unique. But they're the same thing!"
[21]
Lang was the featured soloist on the
Golden Globe
-winning score of
The Painted Veil
and can be heard on the soundtrack of
The Banquet
.
[22]
He has recorded for the
Deutsche Grammophon
and
Telarc
labels. His album of the
first
and
fourth
Beethoven piano concertos with the
Orchestre de Paris
and
Christoph Eschenbach
debuted at No. 1 on the Traditional Classical Billboard Chart.
[23]
In 2008, he was the pianist on
Mike Oldfield
's 2008 album
Music of the Spheres
.
[24]
In 2010, he signed with
Sony
for a reported $3 million.
[25]
Metallica
performed the song One alongside Lang at the
56th Annual Grammy Awards
in 2014.
In December 2008, Lang partnered with Google and YouTube in the project
YouTube Symphony Orchestra
.
[26]
Lang has also recorded piano works for the video game
Gran Turismo 5
'
s soundtrack, mostly under the "Classical" subgenre.
[27]
This included versions of
Danny Boy
, "
Scott Joplin's The Entertainer
", Beethoven's
8th Piano Sonata
, and one of the game's intro pieces, the third movement from
Prokofiev's 7th Piano Sonata
.
Lang has played for UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan
, President
Barack Obama
,
Queen Elizabeth II
, President
Hu Jintao
, President
Horst Kohler
,
Prince Charles
(now Charles III), then Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin
, President
Nicolas Sarkozy
, and Polish President
Lech Kaczy?ski
.
[28]
He cancelled performances from March to July 2017, after injuring his left arm.
[29]
[30]
White House state dinner
[
edit
]
At the White House state dinner in honour of President of China
Hu Jintao
on 19 January 2011, one of the tunes Lang played was the song "
My Motherland
" from the movie
Battle on Shangganling Mountain
, an anti-imperialist film on the
Korean War
. The song's lyrics include the line "We deal with wolves with guns", which in the film referred indirectly to the United States Army.
[31]
[32]
Although the tune is popular and has lost much of its political and historical significance in China,
[33]
the performance was interpreted by American conservatives as insulting the US.
[34]
In response to the controversy, Lang denied that he intended to insult the United States.
[35]
He later released a statement stating that he "selected this song because it has been a favorite of mine since I was a child. It was selected for no other reason but for the beauty of its melody."
[35]
White House spokesperson Tommy Vietor also responded by saying
My Motherland
is "widely known and popular in China for its melody. Lang played the song without lyrics or reference to any political theme... any suggestion that this was an insult to the United States is just flat wrong."
[36]
Select appearances
[
edit
]
Lang has performed at various open-air venues, including
Central Park
New York,
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, the
Ravinia Festival
Chicago, Theaterplatz in
Dresden
, and Derby Park
Hamburg
.
[37]
[38]
In July 2007, he played at a concert from the Teatro del Silenzio,
Lajatico
, Italy, hosted by
Andrea Bocelli
. He performed "Io ci saro" with Bocelli, and Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody". The performance is available on a DVD entitled
Vivere Live in Tuscany
.
[39]
In December 2007, Lang performed at the Nobel Prize concert in
Stockholm
.
[38]
Collaborating with
Seiji Ozawa
, he appeared at the New Year's Eve gala opening for the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
[22]
He also participated in the opening concert at Munich's Olympic Stadium with
Mariss Jansons
, marking the commencement of the 2006
FIFA World Cup
,
[40]
and, in a celebratory concert held the night before the last match of the 2008
Euro Cup
finals, Lang played with the Vienna Philharmonic under
Zubin Mehta
in front of
Schonbrunn Palace
.
[41]
In 2008, an audience estimated at between one and four billion people saw Lang's performance in Beijing's opening ceremony for the
2008 Summer Olympics
where he was promoted as a symbol of the youth and future of China.
[42]
During these games, he was also featured on the German TV network
ZDF
and made several appearances on NBC's
The Today Show
Summer Olympics broadcasts. In the
opening ceremony
, he performed a melody from the
Yellow River Cantata
with five-year-old Li Muzi.
[43]
Lang also collaborated with a German band,
Schiller
, to record "Time for Dreams", used to promote some coverage of the 2008 Olympics broadcast in Germany.
In February 2008, Lang and jazz pianist
Herbie Hancock
performed together at the
50th Annual Grammy Awards
, playing
George Gershwin
's
Rhapsody in Blue
. The two were again brought in by
United Airlines
for the reintroduction of their "It's Time to Fly" advertising campaign with a series of new animated commercials aired during the
2008 Summer Olympics
.
[44]
In April 2008, he premiered
Tan Dun
's
First Piano Concerto
, subtitled "The Fire".
[45]
Hancock and Lang continued to collaborate with a world tour in summer 2009. Lang played at the
2009 Nobel Peace Prize
ceremony for US President
Barack Obama
and at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo the next day.
[46]
Lang has made numerous TV appearances including
The Today Show
,
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
,
Good Morning America
,
CBS Early Show
, and
60 Minutes
and was a judge on
The Piano
. He has featured in publications including
The New Yorker
,
Esquire
,
Vogue
(Germany),
The Times
,
Financial Times
,
GQ
,
Die Welt
,
Reader's Digest
, and
People
.
[47]
Lang holds the title of the first Ambassador of the
YouTube Symphony Orchestra
.
[48]
In 2009, he performed at
Carnegie Hall
accompanied by
Marc Yu
, a 10-year-old pianist and musical child prodigy from Pasadena, California, who made his Carnegie Hall debut at the event.
[49]
Lang was featured in the award-winning German-Austrian documentary
Pianomania
,
[50]
which was directed by
Lilian Franck
and Robert Cibis. The film premiered theatrically in North America, Asia and throughout Europe, and is a part of the
Goethe-Institut
catalogue.
[51]
In 2010, he was featured at the Carnegie Hall's China Festival and performed with the New York Philharmonic on New Year's Eve at Avery Fisher Hall.
[52]
[53]
In 2011, Lang opened the
Last Night of the Proms
at the
Royal Albert Hall
performing with the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
. He played
Liszt
's
1st Piano Concerto
and
Chopin
's
Grande Polonaise Brillante
.
[54]
In June 2012, he played Liszt's
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
and Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue
at the
Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert
at
Buckingham Palace
.
[55]
In 2012, Lang gave a masterclass to a select few pianists at the Royal College of Music featuring
Lara Omero?lu
and
Martin James Bartlett
.
In January 2014, Lang collaborated with
heavy metal
band
Metallica
at the
56th Annual Grammy Awards
, performing their iconic 1988 anti-war classic "
One
".
On 3 July 2014, Lang played at
Byblos International Festival
in
Byblos
, Lebanon.
[56]
On 19 September, he played with Korean artist
PSY
for opening ceremony of
2014 Asian Games
in
Incheon
, South Korea.
On 18 October, Lang performed at the Red Velvet Ball with the
St. Louis Symphony
and
David Robertson
at
Powell Hall
.
On 8 February 2015, Lang played with
Pharrell Williams
and
Hans Zimmer
at the
57th Annual Grammy Awards
, performing Pharrell's hit song "
Happy
".
On 30 April 2015, Lang performed at the Expo 2015 opening concert with Andrea Bocelli at Piazza del Duomo in Milan.
On 4 July 2015, Lang performed "
Rhapsody in Blue
" during "
A Capitol Fourth
", a U.S. Independence Day celebration televised from Washington, D.C.
On 24 September 2015, Lang performed the "
Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
" at the New York Philharmonic Opening Gala Concert, Alan Gilbert (conductor) at the David Geffen Hall, New York City.
In a cameo appearance in the 30 December 2015 episode of "
Mozart in the Jungle
", Lang performed a version of
Franz Liszt
’s "
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
".
[57]
On 19 August 2020, Lang Lang told a Meditative Story about his audition for teacher
Gary Graffman
at the
Curtis Institute of Music
in
Philadelphia
.
[58]
On 25 September 2021, Lang performed at
Global Citizen Live
on the
Great Lawn
in
Central Park
, New York City. He also played piano for the
Coldplay
song,
Clocks
at the same festival.
On 30 September 2021, Lang performed at the opening ceremony of
Expo 2020
in
Dubai
,
UAE
.
On 7 May 2023, Lang performed at the
Coronation Concert
, held in celebration of the
coronation
of
King Charles III
and
Queen Camilla
the day before.
[59]
Lang played the piano for the song "
Reflection
", from
Disney
's 1998 animated film
Mulan
, accompanied by singer
Nicole Scherzinger
.
[60]
Books
[
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]
Lang's autobiography,
Journey of a Thousand Miles
, published by
Random House
in 8 languages, was released in the summer of 2008.
Delacorte Press
also released a version of the autobiography specifically for younger readers, entitled
Playing with Flying Keys
.
Awards and outreach
[
edit
]
Lang Lang has received many awards and made many television appearances. His
DG
recording of
Beethoven
Piano Concertos
Nos.
1
and
4
with
Christoph Eschenbach
was nominated for a
Grammy Award
during the year of its release.
He appeared in
Time
magazine's 2009 list of the
100 Most Influential People in the World
,
[18]
and in
Gramophone
magazine's Hall of Fame in 2012.
[61]
In 2008, the
Recording Academy
named him their Cultural Ambassador to China.
[62]
More recently, Lang has been chosen as an official worldwide ambassador to the 2010
Shanghai Expo
. Lang was appointed by the United Nations' Children's Fund (
UNICEF
) as an
International Goodwill Ambassador
in 2004.
[63]
The Chinese government selected him as a vice-president of the
All-China Youth Federation
.
[64]
The
Financial Times
reported that Lang is "evangelical in his efforts to spread the popularity of classical music."
[65]
In October 2008, he launched the Lang International Music Foundation in New York with the support of the
Grammys
and
UNICEF
.
[66]
[67]
In May 2009, Lang and his three chosen scholars from the foundation?Charlie Liu, Anna Larsen, and Derek Wang, aged between eight and 10 years old?performed together on
The Oprah Winfrey Show
.
[68]
In June 2011, Lang was engaged by
Telefonica
to make appearances concerning culture, technology, education and social commitment.
[69]
On 22 July 2012, Lang carried the London 2012 Olympic torch through
Hornchurch
on its Redbridge to Bexley leg. On 24 August 2012, he was awarded the
Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
for his engagement in the
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
.
[70]
On 28 October 2013, Lang was chosen by Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon
to be a
United Nations Messenger of Peace
?a role he says is more important than his music because it can help improve the lives of children around the world through education.
[71]
His
Chopin Album
on Sony Classical received the 2013
Echo Klassik
Award.
[72]
On 10 April 2024, Lang Lang was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Affiliated with scam
[
edit
]
Lang Lang has endorsed multiple
P2P
platforms, including those accused of illegal fundraising, such as 88 Wealth
[73]
and Solarbao.
[74]
[75]
These P2P platforms have been accused of illegal absorption of public deposits, fictitious investment projects, high-interest lending, and liquidity crises.
[76]
[77]
[78]
Lang Lang has not promptly made public explanations or responses to the issues concerning these platforms, at the same time his company penalised administratively as he failed to publish required annual reports for three consecutive years.
[73]
[79]
Personal life
[
edit
]
Lang married German Korean
[80]
pianist Gina Alice Redlinger in Paris, France, in June 2019.
[81]
[82]
She gave birth to their first child in January 2021.
[83]
Discography
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.
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.
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(in Chinese). ?一新?. 8 June 2021. Archived from
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.
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"深夜大消息!又一A股?控人?底凉了:500?涉黑涉毒帝?覆?,11大罪名?被提起公?!"
.
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感?各位?朋好友??加我的婚?
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Further reading
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- Lang, Lang (2008).
Journey of a thousand miles: my story
(1st ed.). New York: Spiegel & Grau.
ISBN
978-0-385-52456-8
.
OCLC
179834007
.
- Lang, Lang: "Lang Lang: playing with flying keys", Lang Lang with Michael French, introduction by Daniel Barenboim, New York: Delacorte Press, 2008, 215 p.
ISBN
978-0-385-73578-0
- Hung, Eric (Winter?Spring 2009). "Performing "Chineseness" on the Western Concert Stage: The Case of Lang Lang".
Asian Music
.
40
(1): 141?148.
doi
:
10.1353/amu.0.0019
.
JSTOR
25501604
.
- Wu, Grace: "Lang Lang", Cheng & Tsui Co, 2010, 93 p.
ISBN
0-88727-758-6
- Lang Lang:"Una psicologa ascolta Lang Lang e incontra la musica classica", by Patrizia Pezzella, Milano, Archivio Dedalus Edizioni,2015, ISBN 9788897602170
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