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“I think my biggest passion in life is the arts,” said Luo. “Obviously, I am a pianist, so I want to express and I want to connect with people with my music, with the performances that I do. Making that connection with people and to love each other, I think that’s the most important thing in my life.”

“听完这套曲目，就好像走完一次人生的旅程”
——“爱在冬季”

罗维的勇气当然也体现在她的演奏上，艺术不能够总是以技术是否100%完备、演出是否100%准确来衡量其价值，因为他们将自性、音乐坦荡地呈现，毫无保留，连同他们对世界清新又光明的理解一同呈现给观众。 罗维就是这种艺术精神的“代言人”，她的第一乐章出乎意料地伟岸、直率，内心似乎没有拉赫曼尼诺夫典型的长线条的、跌宕的起伏，她的演奏总是熠熠生辉，理性的色彩仿如字正腔圆的独白，直指人心。

If you stayed at home for this concert, it was your profound loss. Luo seems destined for stardom. With a minimum of fuss but a huge dose of flabbergasting technique, she ripped through Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major with ease and authority.

From Wei Luo’s sparkling opening salvo in the Prokofiev, I sensed we were about to hear an extraordinary piano performance, and her muscular yet seamlessly refined technique thrilled us traversing this flashy icon of early 20th-century modernism.

Luo features her flair for Russian composers with selections by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Shchedrin, as well as works by Haydn and Ravel.

"Wei is a young lady now, who deserves to go very far. She is not only a wonderful musical powerhouse but a brilliant thinker, who goes way beyond the score and brings her own ideas to everything she approaches,” says Gary Graffman, Wei Luo’s trusted mentor since she arrived at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music at the age of 13.

More classical tracks this month come from a future star, 19-year-old Chinese pianist Wei Luo. Her expressive Mozart and Chopin are complemented by the startling virtuosity of her Prokofiev and Shchedrin.