Lang Lang
Birth Name:
Lang Lang
Birth Place:
Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Profession
Music department, Soundtrack, Actor
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․"
- Recorded the soundtrack for the video game "Gran Tourismo 5․"
- Was the first official ambassador of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra