Chinese piano prodigy Lang Lang (b. Shenyang, June 14 1982) won a series of
competitions before moving to the USA, where his career took off. At just
eighteen, he gave his first concert at New York's Carnegie Hall (2001), and two
years later recorded the critically acclaimed program of Tchaikovsky -
Mendelssohn piano concertos with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. Since then, his albums such as the Memory recital (2006) and the
Beethoven: Piano Concertos No.1 & No.4 program have regularly topped the
classical music charts. The first Chinese artist to be nomina...