Joyce Yang
Joyce Yang first came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest contestant at 19 years old, she took home two additional awards: Best Performance of Chamber Music( with the Takàcs Quartet), and Best Performance of a New Work. In 2006 Yang made her celebrated New York Philharmonic debut alongside Lorin Maazel at Avery Fisher Hall.
In 2010 Yang received the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant and earned her first GRAM- MY nomination( Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance) for her recording of Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann with violinist Augustin Hadelich.
In addition to the New York Philharmonic, notable orchestral engagements have included the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, as well as the Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand symphony orchestras. She was also featured in a fiveyear Rachmaninoff concerto cycle with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony.
In solo recitals, Yang has performed at New York City’ s Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C., Chicago’ s Symphony Hall, Zurich’ s Tonhalle, and all throughout Australia.
Yang has released ten recordings, including celebrated solo discs( Collage and Wild Dreams, Avie Records). Yang also released a live-performance recording of Tchaikovsky’ s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Denmark’ s Odense Symphony Orchestra( Bridge Records).
Yang graduated from Juilliard with special honor as the recipient of the school’ s 2010 Arthur Rubinstein Prize, and in 2011 she won its 30th Annual William A. Petschek Piano Recital Award. She is a Steinway artist.
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