Cultural Streaming – Through The Eyes of Yuja

Take in
recorded performances of leading classical and jazz artists, ensembles, and
orchestras from around the world in the comfort of the Zlock Performing Arts
Center. Free and Open to Public

With more
than 120 performances a year, Yuja Wang lives a nomadic lifestyle. Travelling
the world, two extra small trolley suitcases carry the essentials for a two
week trip: dresses, shoes, iPad, iPod, and Smartphone. The 27-year-old Yuja
leads a new generation of pianists who can comfortably play anything thanks to
phenomenal technique and healthy self-confidence. Even so, she stands squarely
in the tradition of great piano virtuosi, offering much more than just
technical wizardry alone…

In this
film, we journey alongside the extraordinary pianist. Yuja's wanderings are a
travelogue of exciting venues, glitzy cities, and encounters with extraordinary
artists—Gustavo Dudamel, Gautier Capuçon, and Leonidas Kavakos and innumerable
other personalities—but they are accompanied by all the implicit downsides:
fatigue, jet lag, pressure, doubts, hostilities, disorientation, and
loneliness. Through the Eyes of Yuja reveals us this artist in
a very personal way, using a portable camera and her smartphone to record her
digital diary. With a bittersweet reference to the transience of life, the film
explores how the invisible complements the visible.

Free and Open to Public. 50 min