Lang Lang was born in June 1982 in Shenyang, China. He began taking piano lessons at age three and gave his first public recital two years later. In 1991 he entered the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing and two years later, won Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians in Japan. In 1997, Lang Lang left China for the US to pursue a career as a concert pianist where he studied under legendary pianist Gary Graffman. He was just 17 when he became an overnight sensation after playing Tchaikovsky’s “First Piano Concerto” at the Gala of the Century with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Since that breakthrough, Lang has played sold-out concerts all over the world and formed ongoing collaborations with conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Barenboim and

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