MEET THE SOLOIST: Joyce Yang, piano: Grieg’s Beloved Piano Concerto, March 13 & 14, 2020

Joyce Yang, piano

Performs Grieg’s Beloved Piano Concerto

Amica Rush Hour Concert Series: March 13, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. at The VETS, Providence

TACO Classical Concert Series: March 14, 2020 at 8 p.m. at The VETS, Providence

Background:  Born in Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Yang moved to the United States in 1997 to begin studies at the pre-college division of The Juilliard School with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky. She first came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Highlights:

• Yang’s wide-ranging discography includes the world premiere recording of Michael Torke’s Piano Concerto, created expressly for Yang and commissioned by the Albany Symphony.
• Yang appears in the film In the Heart of Music, a documentary about the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
• Joyce was featured in a five-year Rachmaninoff concerto cycle with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony.
• Joyce is a Steinway artist.

Critical Praise:



• “Her attention to detail and clarity is as impressive as her agility, balance and velocity” – Washington Post
•  “The sound is bold and modern, yet restrained. The precision of the fingerwork is astounding” – BBC Music Magazine
• “de Waart conducted Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Joyce Yang, Silver Medalist of the 12th Van Cliburn International Competition, as the soloist … She played with a polished, pearly evenness that was remarkable for its ease up and down the keyboard” – Los Angeles Times
• “Mr. Maazel led a taut performance (of Bernstein’s ‘Age of Anxiety’), and the orchestra played this dark-hued music vividly and with a sharp edge. But the standout was Joyce Yang, who gave a knockout performance of the alternately poetic, fiery and occasionally jazz-tinged piano line” – New York Times

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