It is not through a great deal of marketing fanfare, but in a pleasantly unassuming manner, that Liya Wang has made a name for herself in the piano world in recent years.
Ever since September 2025 at the latest, when she won first prize and the audience prize at the ARD International Music Competition, it has been clear that she belongs on the big stage. With this and other accolades to her name, she consistently shapes her playing with subtle intuition, striking just the right balance in every work between rigour and freedom, between formal clarity and spontaneous emotion. In our ‘Discovering Talents’ series, she conjures up a cleverly conceived programme on stage: under her hands, Schubert’s lieder in Franz Liszt’s demanding piano transcriptions, as well as Schumann’s deeply romantic ‘Davidsbündler-Tänze’ and Brahms’s ‘Intermezzi’, take on an almost timeless quality.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV 825;
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in D major, K. 311;
Franz Schubert: ‘Der Lindenbaum’ D 911/5 / ‘Die Forelle’ D 550 / ‘Der Müller und der Bach’ D 795/19 (arrangement for piano: Franz Liszt);
Johannes Brahms: Three Intermezzi, Op. 117;
Robert Schumann: ‘Davidsbündler’ Dances, Op. 6 (Source: KTK Heinersdorff)
