A Highly-Decorated Graduate

On May 27th, Joyce Yang received her B.M. in Piano, graduating from The Juilliard School with special honor, as the recipient of the 2010 Arthur Rubinstein Prize, which came with an award $2000. The Prize, honoring the Polish-American pianist Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982), has been awarded annually at Commencement since 1996 to an outstanding pianist chosen by the Dean and faculty. Previous winners of the Prize include Hong Xu, Ran Dank, Konstantin Soukhovetski, Ron Regev, Shai Wosner, Chuan Qin and Helen Huang.

In addition, Yang was recently selected by The Julliard School to receive an award in memory of legendary pianist Samuel Sanders. The award was given by Martin Sanders, Samuel's brother and Board vice chair of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. As a result of this honor, Yang will play a recital at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on November 6th.

She recently sat down for an interview and performance with NPR's Fred Child. The piece celebrates composer Robert Schumann's Bicentennial, featuring a discussion of Schumann's music and a performance of his "Carnaval." Audio from the interview and the performance can be found at NPR's website.