What Illness Does Yuja Wang Have?

Yuja Wang does not have any known illness as of 2022. The Chinese pianist is perfectly fine and has no health conditions.

Yuja Wang was born on February 10, 1987, in Beijing, China. She is 35 years old as of now. She was brought up by her parents, Zhai Jieming and Wang Jianguo. Her mother, Zhai Jieming, is a dancer while her father, Wang Jianguo, is a percussionist.

At the age of eleven, Yuja Wang entered the Morningside Music Bridge International Music Festival at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta where she became the festival’s youngest student.

Yuja Wang became an internationally recognized concert pianist by the age of 21. She won third prize and the special jury prize in the piano section at the first Sendai International Music Competition in Sendai, Japan in 2001.

Yuja Wang later made her North American debut in Ottawa in the 2005–2006 season. She made her New York Philharmonic debut at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival in 2006. Yuja Wang performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Charles Dutoit conducting.