Pianist Yuja Wang will join the LA Philharmonic for a special one-night performance on Feb. 1. (photo courtesy of the LA Phil)

The LA Phil announced that on Feb. 1, renowned pianist Yuja Wang will join the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas for a program titled “Celebrating MTT with Yuja Wang” at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Michael Tilson Thomas has been part of the LA Phil family for more than five decades and in honor of his 80th birthday, the orchestra celebrates its former principal guest conductor with selections of his music and other classic gems alongside the world-renowned pianist, whose collaborations in concert with Tilson Thomas have spanned two decades.

Kicking off the evening with what Tilson Thomas calls “alternately elegant and goofball percussion entrances,” he conducts his jubilant Agnegram, followed by an impression of Spain in Debussy’s Ibéria.

Wang joins Tilson Thomas at the piano for Poulenc’s devilishly witty “Sonata for Four Hands.” The duo will then perform the original jazz band version of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and Tilson Thomas’ “You Come Here Often?”

The Walt Disney Concert Hall is located at 111 S. Grand Ave.  For information, visit laphil.org.