Cart
Time remaining:
00:00
Enter Promo Code
Yuja Wang, piano
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano, Friday, February 28, 2025 7:00PM
Choose from the list below to jump directly to another date of this performance
Item details
Date
Friday, February 28, 2025 7:00PM
Name
Yuja Wang, piano
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano
Description
An Unprecedented Two-piano Collaboration
Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures
“[Yuja Wang’s] combination of technical ease, colouristic range and sheer power has always been remarkable.” Financial Times
“A breathtakingly brilliant pianist.” Gramophone on Víkingur Ólafsson
Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson join forces for an unforgettable night of four-handed keyboard mastery. Lauded for her charismatic artistry, emotional honesty and captivating stage presence, Wang is a regular with the world’s top symphony orchestras and was named Musical America’s Artist of the Year in 2017. An acclaimed visionary interpreter of such monuments of the piano repertoire as J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ólafsson has received Opus Klassik’s Solo Recording Instrumental of the Year twice since his debut with Deutsche Grammophon in 2017.
Program
Berio: Wasserklavier
Schubert: Fantasia in F minor for Four Hands
Ligeti: “Bewegung” from Three Pieces for Two Pianos
Brubeck: Fugue from Points on Jazz
Nancarrow (arr. Thomas Adès): Study No. 6
John Adams: Hallelujah Junction
Arvo Pärt: Hymn to a Great City
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Tickets are also available through UCSB Arts & Lectures.
Single Tickets on Sale Aug 2 at 10am.
Ticket prices include a $6 Granada Facility Fee.
An additional Granada web service fee of $3 per ticket will be applied at seat selection.