Lang Lang Parents: Meet Lang Guoren, Zhou Xiulan

Lang Lang is a Chinese pianist who has appeared with major orchestras in China, North America, Europe, and other parts of the world.

Lang Lang is the son of Lang Guoren and Zhou Xiulan. Lang Lang was born in 1982 in Shenyang, Liaoning, to the Manchu Niohuru clan.

Lang Guoren, his father, is a musician who plays the erhu. During the Cultural Revolution, before Lang was born, both his father and mother, both musicians, were displaced to work on rural rice farms in the country.

Lang and his father immigrated to the United States in 1997 to attend the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Lang Lang was the first Chinese pianist to be hired by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and several top American orchestras.

Lang Lang was dubbed “the biggest, most exciting young keyboard talent I have encountered in many a year of attending piano recitals” by a Chicago Tribune music critic.

Many consider Lang to be one of the most accomplished classical musicians of our time.