Shanghai Symphony and Pianist Prodigy Wang

Nothing like a world-class symphonic performance next door! The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and prodigy Yuja Wang will play at Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall next Sunday afternoon.

The oldest of Asia's orchestras, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 130th anniversary with a U.S. tour that commences in the final concert of Carnegie Hall's China Festival and ends in California.

The Orchestra appears in Berkeley with pianist Yuja Wang, whose arrival "on the musical scene is an exhilarating and unnerving development. To listen to her in action is to re-examine whatever assumptions you may have had about how well the piano can actually be played," says the San Francisco Chronicle.

This program includes some familiar and unfamiliar works including Mussorgsky's Prelude to Khovantchina, "Dawn on the Moscow River;" Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2; and Qigang Chen's Iris dévoileé.

Tickets: These tickets run $20/40/60 per seat. Buy online here or call the ticket office at (510) 642-9988 (Tues-Fri, 12-5:30pm, Sat-Sun, 1-5pm). The box office also opens an hour before the performance.

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