Qiwen Shen, B.Econ. from Sun Yat-Sen University (2018)

Lang Lang is definitely the most famous one in China. Every child who learns piano know his way to success is so hard. He is a diligent pianist. He has perfect techniques.His body language and rich facial expressions in the performance are symbolic.Every year Lang Lang give so many high level performance without mistakes. Lang Lang’s performance always give me a feeling that I am living in a world full of sunshine, which is warm and clear,and full of hope.

Yundi Li,also very famous in China. When we mention Yundi Li, we think of his fantastic performance in the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition in 2000. He was definitely the best Chinese pianist who interpreted Chopin poetically at that time. However, his recent performance is disappointing to his fans. His shockingly bad performance(Fail to perform Chopin No.1 Concerto) in Korea in 2015 caused heated discussion in China.One famous piano professor even described this concert as “Death” . Netizens criticized his terrible and nightmare performance. They criticized that he took part in too much commercial activities, thus neglecting his practice. On YouTube, there is even a channel named “Evil Yundi” ,which collects his failure performance.

Yuja Wang is the youngest one among three.She is comparatively less famous than Lang Lang and Yundi Li in China.Maybe it is because she only give several concerts in China every years. But most children who learn piano in China know Yuja because they all watched her play-along tracks when she was young. I think Yuja’s future is promising! She has perfect techniques.Her speed is so amazing!Her performance is so energetic and full of strengths(Just listen to her Rachmaninov and Prokofiev). I have heard her Chopin No.2 Concerto in last September. It was an amazing performance. Besides, her five encores were impressive. Chopin No.1 Ballade, Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor… Oh I can still remember her interpretation that night…Although some people said that Yuja had perfect techniques but her performance is not profound enough, I think she just need more time. She is so young and has great potential. What’s more,Yuja is so nice and cute haha…I love her lovely bow and warm smile so much!






Quora에 있는 글을 그대로 가져왔는데, 이 사람 의견이 전체를 대변한다 말할 순 없겠지만, 그래도 어느정도 현재 상황이 반영되어 있는 듯 하다


아는대로 Yundi는 2015년에 충격적인 공연을 한국에서 한바 있는데 이게 중국에서도 화제가 된 모양이고 지나치게 상업적인 광고들에 몰두하면서 연습을 등한시한 연주가로 중국에서 인식되고 있는 듯..


실제로 2016년까지 스케줄이 꽤 잡혔는지 기사와 리뷰가 검색되고, 2017-2019년의 리뷰는 사실상 거의 없는 듯... (Yuja나 Langlang과 대조적인 부분)


재능도 중요하지만 성실한 자질도 피아니스트에게 중요하다는 생각이 드네