Lang Lang Biography

Fast Facts

• Founded the Lang Lang International Music Foundation in an effort to promote music education
• In 2013, he received the Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Minister of Culture
• Trained in piano at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia
• Playing piano since the age of 3, he performed publically for the first time by the time he was 5 years old
• Was inspired to play piano at a young age after watching an episode of "Tom and Jerry" that featured Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No․ 2․"
• Was the first official ambassador of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra
• Recorded the soundtrack for the video game "Gran Tourismo 5․"