‘Lang Lang and Friends’
Lang Lang, the Chinese piano phenom, visited the Renee and Henry Segerstron Concert Hall in Costa Mesa Tuesday with some friends in tow. They ranged from youngsters participating in Lang’s education efforts to a master of the ancient two-string Chinese instrument known as the erhu. Here, two of the young students, Derek Wang and Anna Larsen on the left, perform with student Charlie Liu and and Lang Lang on the right. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Lang Lang accompanies tenor GeQun Wang. The “Lang Lang and Friends” program had been presented the previous week at Carnegie Hall. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Dan Zhu, a soloist from Beijing with a quickly rising reputation, and Hai-Ye Ni, the principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, join Lang to perform Tchaikovsky’s epic, nearly 50-minute Piano Trio. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Lang Lang joins a 9-year-old Pasadenan, Marc Yu, in Schubert’s late Rondo for piano four-hands. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Lang is joined by Guo Gan, an erhu player from northern China. Guo’s father taught the ancient two-string instrument to Lang’s father. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
