The 2024 Bachauer Bronze Medalist opens the 2025/26 season in a program centered on dreams, memory, and longing, including Schubert’s “Wanderer” Fantasy, Rachmaninoff’s flower songs, and Zhang Zhao’s Pi Huang, with the color and drama of Peking Opera.
Chinese pianist Wynona Wang has gained international recognition with major competition successes, including the Bronze Medal at the 2024 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition, first prize at the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and finalist and multi-prize winner at the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition. She has appeared with orchestras such as the Sydney Symphony, Utah Symphony, and Pasadena Symphony, and has performed in leading venues including the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Recent seasons have featured debuts with the New York Philharmonic’s Artist Spotlight Series, Shriver Hall, and Tippet Rise, as well as festival appearances at Music@Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, and the Mostly Mozart Festival. Her chamber partners have included Garrick Ohlsson, Joyce Yang, and Inon Barnatan.
Born in Beijing, Wynona studied at the Central Conservatory before earning degrees at The Juilliard School, where she received the Arthur Rubinstein Commencement Award. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at Juilliard and is a Young Steinway Artist.
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Lilacs, op. 21, no. 5
Daisies, op. 38, no. 3
ZHANG ZHAO
Kangding Love Song
Pi Huang
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 (Wanderer)
INTERMISSION
LEOŠ JANÁČEK
Sonata 1.X.1905 (From the Street)
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, op. 83
