Lang Lang

After Turin and Rome, Florence is the next stop for Lang Lang's Italian Journey. "The most talented artist on the classical music planet" according to The New York Times: a versatile musician and UN Messenger of Peace, Lang Lang performed a piano concerto in the occasion of the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, and held concerts for Barack Obama, Kofi Annan, Hu Jintao, Vladimir Putin and Queen Elizabeth II.

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata n. 5 in G major K 283
Sonata n. 4 in E-flat major K 282
Sonata n. 8 in A minor K 310

Interval

Fryderyk Chopin
Scherzo n. 1 in B minor op. 20
Scherzo n. 2 in B-flat minor / D-flat major op. 31
Scherzo n. 3 in C-sharp minor op. 39
Scherzo n. 4 in E major op. 54

LANG LANG

He was born in Shenyang, China in 1982. At the age of three, fascinated by the music of Franz Liszt heard in an episode of the cartoon Tom & Jerry, he started to study the piano. He enrolled at the Conservatory of Music in Beijing and at thirteen won the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, and in 1999 became an overnight star when he replaced André Watts at the Ravinia Festival. He has performed with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Rattle and Seiji Ozawa and has participated in events such as the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and the final concert for the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro with Plácido Domingo in 2014. He has written his autobiography Journey of a Thousand Miles, and is also a United Nations Messenger of Peace.