NY Philharmonic To Celebrate the Year of the Horse with Chinese New Year Concert and Gala, February 1

Manfred Honeck, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Yuri Temirkanov, and Michael Tilson-Thomas. Ms. Wang regularly gives recitals throughout Asia, Europe, and North America, and appears at summer chamber music festivals, including her annual engagement at the Verbier Festival. Highlights of this season include performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Mr. Mehta, followed by an appearance with that ensemble at Vienna's Musikverein and a U.S. tour. She also tours with the San Francisco Symphony in Asia, performs an all-Brahms cycle in Paris with the principal players of the Berlin Philharmonic, and gives a recital tour of Japan that culminates with her debut at Tokyo's Suntory Hall. An exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon, Ms. Wang's catalogue includes three sonata recordings and a concerto recording with Claudio Abbado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra that features Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Piano Concerto No. 2 (Grammy Award nominee for Best Classical Instrumental Solo). She studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Ling Yuan and Zhou Guangren, the Mount Royal Conservatory in Calgary with Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone, and The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Gary Graffman. In 2010 she received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. Yuja Wang first appeared with the Philharmonic in 2006, performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 as part of performances at Bravo! Vail, conducted by Bramwell Tovey, and in Tokyo, led by Lorin Maazel. Her most recent appearance was in 2012 performing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, conducted by Jaap van Zweden.

Violinist Cho-Liang Lin's career has spanned the globe for more than 30 years. Performing on several continents, he appears as soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Detroit, Toronto, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, and San Diego symphony orchestras; in Europe with the English Chamber Orchestra and the Bergen, Stockholm, and Munich philharmonic orchestras; and in Asia with the Hong Kong and Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Singapore and Bangkok Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Lin has added to his orchestral engagements as soloist by conducting, and completed season-long residencies with the Shanghai and Singapore Symphony Orchestras. He has enjoyed collaborations and premieres with composers including Tan Dun, Joel Hoffman, John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lalo Schifrin, Paul Schoenfield, Bright Sheng, and Joan Tower. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Lin appears at the Beijing Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Aspen and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals. He is music director of La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest and artistic director of Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival and of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra's Youth Music Summer Camp. Mr. Lin's extensive award-winning discography includes his recent recordings of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, works by Bright Sheng and Gordon Chin, and George Tsontakis's First Violin Concerto. Upcoming recordings include a violin concerto by Joan Tower with the Nashville Symphony. Cho-Liang Lin's studies began in his native Taiwan at age five with Sylvia Lee, and he studied with Robert Pikler in Sydney and Dorothy DeLay in New York. He made his New York debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival at age 19, followed soon thereafter with the New York Philharmonic. In 2000 Mr. Lin was named Musical America's Instrumentalist of the Year. He joined The Juilliard School faculty in 1991, and was recently appointed professor of violin at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. He plays the 1715 "Titian" Stradivarius. Mr. Lin made his New York Philharmonic debut in 1981, performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, conducted by Zubin Mehta. His most recent appearance was in 2001, when he performed Christopher Rouse's Violin Concerto, led by David Zinman.