Editing Lang Lang (section)

== Select appearances ==
[[File:Chinese pianist Lang Lang the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Lang performing at the [[2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony|Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics]]]]
Lang has performed at various open-air venues, including [[Central Park]] New York, [[Hollywood Bowl]] Los Angeles, the [[Ravinia Festival]] Chicago, Theaterplatz in [[Dresden]], and Derby Park [[Hamburg]].<ref>[http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/philpedia/artist-detail.cfm?id=413 "Lang Lang"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909155813/http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/philpedia/artist-detail.cfm?id=413 |date=9 September 2011}}, [[Hollywood Bowl]]. Retrieved 11 September 2011.</ref><ref name=montalvo>[http://montalvoarts.org/events/lang_lang_california/ "Piano Masters: Lang Lang – Sold Out!"], Montalco Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2011.</ref>

In July 2007, he played at a concert from the Teatro del Silenzio, [[Lajatico]], Italy, hosted by [[Andrea Bocelli]]. He performed "Io ci sarò" with Bocelli, and Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody". The performance is available on a DVD entitled ''[[Vivere Live in Tuscany]]''.<ref>[http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2007_3.htm "July 5, 2007: Teatro del Silenzio, Lajatico, Italy"], ''Bocelli Deutschland''. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
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In December 2007, Lang performed at the Nobel Prize concert in Stockholm.<ref name=montalvo/> Collaborating with [[Seiji Ozawa]], he appeared at the New Year's Eve gala opening for the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.<ref name=SFS/> He also participated in the opening concert at Munich's Olympic Stadium with [[Mariss Jansons]], marking the commencement of the 2006 [[FIFA World Cup]],<ref>[https://www.olympiapark.de/en/tours-sightseeing/sightseeing/munich-olympic-walk-of-stars "3 Orchester & Stars"], Munich Olympia Park. Retrieved 11 September 2011.</ref> and, in a celebratory concert held the night before the last match of the 2008 [[Euro Cup]] finals, Lang played with the Vienna Philharmonic under [[Zubin Mehta]] in front of [[Schönbrunn Palace]].<ref>[http://www.cmajor-entertainment.com/catalogue/show/id/1283 "Lang Lang at Schönbrunn"], ''C Major Entertainment''. Retrieved 11 September 2011.</ref>

In 2008, an audience estimated at between one and four billion people saw Lang's performance in Beijing's opening ceremony for the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] where he was promoted as a symbol of the youth and future of China.<ref>[http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-07-2008/0004863443&EDATE= "China's Superstar Pianist Lang Lang to Perform to Over Five Billion Viewers at 2008 Summer Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Beijing on Friday, August 8th"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516004126/http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F08-07-2008%2F0004863443&EDATE= |date=16 May 2012 }}, PR Newswire quoting Align Entertainment Group as source. Retrieved 11 September 2011.</ref> During these games, he was also featured on the German TV network [[ZDF]] and made several appearances on NBC's ''[[Today (NBC program)|The Today Show]]'' Summer Olympics broadcasts. In the [[2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony|opening ceremony]], he performed a melody from the [[Yellow River Cantata]] with five-year-old Li Muzi.<ref>Jie, Chen. [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2008-08/09/content_6918903.htm Lang delights the crowd with moving performance] ''China Daily''</ref> Lang also collaborated with a German band, [[Schiller (band)|Schiller]], to record "Time for Dreams", used to promote some coverage of the 2008 Olympics broadcast in Germany.

In February 2008, Lang and jazz pianist [[Herbie Hancock]] performed together at the [[50th Annual Grammy Awards]], playing [[George Gershwin]]'s ''[[Rhapsody in Blue]]''. The two were again brought in by [[United Airlines]] for the reintroduction of their "It's Time to Fly" advertising campaign with a series of new animated commercials aired during the [[2008 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/uniteditstimetofly |title=Uniteditstimetofly's Channel – YouTube |website=YouTube |access-date=25 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229104759/http://www.youtube.com/user/uniteditstimetofly |archive-date=29 February 2012}}</ref> In April 2008, he premiered [[Tan Dun]]'s [[Piano Concerto (Tan Dun)|First Piano Concerto]], subtitled "The Fire".<ref>{{cite news
| url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/tan-duns-musical-mishmash/74545/
| title=Tan Dun's Musical Mishmash
| last=Nordlinger
| first=Jay|author-link=Jay Nordlinger
| date=11 April 2008
| newspaper=[[The New York Sun]]
| access-date=25 January 2010}}</ref> Hancock and Lang continued to collaborate with a world tour in summer 2009. Lang played at the [[2009 Nobel Peace Prize]] ceremony for US President [[Barack Obama]] and at the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo the next day.<ref>[http://www.chinese.cn/people/en/article/2009-12/16/content_93512.htm "Lang Lang Sets Peaceful Mood in Oslo"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019095101/http://www.chinese.cn/people/en/article/2009-12/16/content_93512.htm |date=19 October 2013 }}, Confucius Institute. Retrieved 11 September 2011.</ref>

Lang has made numerous TV appearances including ''The Today Show'', ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]'', ''[[Good Morning America]]'', ''[[CBS Early Show]]'', and ''[[60 Minutes]]'' and was a judge on ''[[The Piano (TV series)|The Piano]]''. He has featured in publications including ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' (Germany), ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[Financial Times]]'', ''[[GQ]]'', ''[[Die Welt]]'', ''[[Reader's Digest]]'', and ''[[People (magazine)|People]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Caesar |first=Ed |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/04/080804fa_fact_remnick |title=The Olympian|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=4 August 2008 |access-date=23 May 2017}}</ref> Lang holds the title of the first Ambassador of the [[YouTube Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3tsDu7XT0M "Lang Lang, the first YouTube Symphony Orchestra Ambassador"], YouTube. Retrieved 12 September 2011.</ref>

In 2009, he performed at [[Carnegie Hall]] accompanied by [[Marc Yu]], a 10-year-old pianist and musical child prodigy from Pasadena, California, who made his Carnegie Hall debut at the event.<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ten-year-old-prodigy-plays-carnegie-hall/ "Ten-Year-Old Prodigy Plays Carnegie Hall"]. CBS News. Retrieved 12 September 2011.</ref>

Lang was featured in the award-winning German-Austrian documentary ''[[Pianomania]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oval-film.com/wordpressEN/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112101220/http://oval-film.com/wordpressEN/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=12 November 2011 |title=Pianomania |website=Oval-film.com |access-date=23 May 2017 }}</ref> which was directed by [[Lilian Franck]] and Robert Cibis. The film premiered theatrically in North America, Asia and throughout Europe, and is a part of the [[Goethe-Institut]] catalogue.<ref>[http://firstrunfeatures.com/pianomania/ "''Pianomania''"], ''First Run Features''. Retrieved 4 June 2012.</ref>

[[File:Opening of Chopin Year in Warsaw 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Lang at the opening of the 2010 [[Chopin and his Europe|Chopin Year]] in Warsaw]]
In 2010, he was featured at the Carnegie Hall's China Festival and performed with the [[New York Philharmonic]] on New Year's Eve at Avery Fisher Hall.<ref>[http://www.carnegiehall.org/chinafestival/events/12193.aspx "Ancient Paths, Modern Voices"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619212210/http://www.carnegiehall.org/chinafestival/events/12193.aspx |date=19 June 2010 }}, Carnegie Hall. Retrieved 12 September 2011.</ref><ref>[http://nyphil.org/meet/archive/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=2120&seasonNum=10 "New Year's Eve: Alan Gilbert, Lang Lang, and Tchaikovsky"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309090250/http://nyphil.org/meet/archive/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=2120&seasonNum=10 |date=9 March 2011 }}, [[New York Philharmonic]]. Retrieved 12 September 2011.</ref>

In 2011, Lang opened the [[Last Night of the Proms]] at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] performing with the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]]. He played [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)|1st Piano Concerto]] and [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]'s [[Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante|Grande Polonaise Brillante]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/proms/8755293/BBC-Proms-2011-Last-night-of-the-Proms-review.html Ivan Hewett, "BBC Proms 2011: Last night of the Proms, review"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 10 September 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.</ref>

In June 2012, he played Liszt's [[Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6]] and Gershwin's [[Rhapsody in Blue]] at the [[Diamond Jubilee Concert|Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert]] at [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18327599 Mark Savage, "Stars shine on The Queen at Jubilee concert"], BBC News, 5 June 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2012</ref>
In 2012, Lang gave a masterclass to a select few pianists at the Royal College of Music featuring [[Lara Ömeroğlu]] and [[Martin James Bartlett]].

In January 2014, Lang collaborated with [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] [[Band (rock and pop)|band]] [[Metallica]] at the [[56th Annual Grammy Awards]], performing their iconic 1988 anti-war classic "[[One (Metallica song)|One]]".

On 3 July 2014, Lang played at [[Byblos International Festival]] in [[Byblos]], Lebanon.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.byblosfestival.org/LangLang/index.html |title=Byblos International Festival |access-date=21 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821200702/http://www.byblosfestival.org/LangLang/index.html |archive-date=21 August 2014}}</ref>

On 19 September, he played with Korean artist [[PSY]] for opening ceremony of [[2014 Asian Games]] in [[Incheon]], South Korea.

On 18 October, Lang performed at the Red Velvet Ball with the [[St. Louis Symphony]] and [[David Robertson (conductor)|David Robertson]] at [[Powell Hall]].

On 8 February 2015, Lang played with [[Pharrell Williams]] and [[Hans Zimmer]] at the [[57th Annual Grammy Awards]], performing Pharrell's hit song "[[Happy (Pharrell Williams song)|Happy]]".

On 30 April 2015, Lang performed at the Expo 2015 opening concert with Andrea Bocelli at Piazza del Duomo in Milan.

On 4 July 2015, Lang performed "[[Rhapsody in Blue]]" during "[[A Capitol Fourth]]", a U.S. Independence Day celebration televised from Washington, D.C.

On 24 September 2015, Lang performed the [[Piano Concerto (Grieg)|Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16]] at the New York Philharmonic Opening Gala Concert at the [[David Geffen Hall]] with [[Alan Gilbert (conductor)|Alan Gilbert]] conducting.

In a cameo appearance in the 30 December 2015 episode of ''[[Mozart in the Jungle]]'', Lang performed a version of [[Franz Liszt]]'s "[[Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2]]".<ref>{{cite web
| title=9 ''Mozart in the Jungle'' Scene-Stealing Cameos from Season 2
| url=http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/nine-scene-stealing-cameos-mozart-jungle-season-2/
| date=6 January 2016
| access-date=30 April 2016}}</ref>

On 19 August 2020, Lang told a meditative story about his audition for teacher [[Gary Graffman]] at the [[Curtis Institute of Music]] in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web
| title=The teacher who asked a new question, Meditative Story by Lang Lang
| url=https://meditativestory.com/lang-lang//
| date=19 August 2020
| access-date=22 April 2020}}</ref>

On 25 September 2021, Lang performed at [[Global Citizen Live]] on the [[Great Lawn and Turtle Pond|Great Lawn]] in [[Central Park]], New York City. He also played piano for the [[Coldplay]] song, "[[Clocks (song)|Clocks]]" at the same festival.

On 30 September 2021, Lang performed at the opening ceremony of [[Expo 2020]] in Dubai, UAE.

On 7 May 2023, Lang performed at the [[Coronation Concert]], held in celebration of the [[Coronation of Charles III and Camilla|coronation]] of [[Charles III|King Charles III]] and [[Queen Camilla]] the day before.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/07/coronation-concert-review-a-cobbled-together-bunch-of-b-listers|title=Coronation Concert review – a cobbled-together bunch of B-listers|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=7 May 2023|access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref> Lang played the piano for the song "[[Reflection (song)|Reflection]]", from [[Disney]]'s 1998 animated film ''[[Mulan (1998 film)|Mulan]]'', accompanied by singer [[Nicole Scherzinger]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.classicfm.com/artists/lang-lang/nicole-scherzinger-mulan-coronation-concert/|title=Lang Lang and Nicole Scherzinger perform 'Reflection' from Disney's ''Mulan'' at Windsor Castle|website=Classic FM|last=Hall|first=Sophia Alexandra|date=7 May 2023|access-date=8 May 2023}}</ref>