Hear selections from my new CD "Collage," coming out November 1, 2011 on WNYC's weekly show Soundcheck, hosted by John Schaefer. Aired Wednesday October 19, 2011. Click here to listen!

Please come celebrate the release of Joyce’s solo album, COLLAGE with Joyce and guests artists Giora Schmidt (the recepient of 2003 Avery Fisher Career Grant) and Liang Wang (Principal Oboe of the NY Philharmonic) at the beautiful Singer Hall.

Music of Saint-Saens, Franck, and Schumann will be performed followed by lavish hors d’oeuvres dinner and champagne.

Mamaroneck, New York
Sunday, 23 October 2011 - 4:00 PM

Spaces are limited, so call Sid Singer at 914-698-1240 to reserve your seat today!

Joyce Yang: on a Roll to the Hollywood Bowl

What a summer for pianist Joyce Yang! Her appearances at several top U.S. music festivals - including her Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival debut, as well as performances at Brevard (NC), Bravo! Vail Valley, and La Jolla Summerfest - garnered ovations from both critics and audiences. Reviewing Yang's performance with the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden, the Aspen Times wrote, "Yang provided a beautifully natural, pure performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3. ... She had the confidence to let the music be what it is without pushing or pulling on it."

As soloist with the Russian National Orchestra at Festival del Sole, "Joyce Yang, 25, brought the audience to its feet for her electrifying playing of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2," according to the Napa Valley Register. Yang's summer season ends with a return to the Hollywood Bowl and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Sep 8). She continues her close collaboration with the Milwaukee Symphony this fall and will be back again in February for her ongoing Rachmaninoff cycle with Edo de Waart.

Selected fall highlights:

• Sep 8: Hollywood Bowl - Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Bramwell Tovey (Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2)
• Oct 11: Budapest; Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra/ Domonkos Héja (Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2)
• Nov 9: Milwaukee Symphony/ Francesco Lecce-Chong

  (Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1)

• Oct 24: CD release (Avie Records) Collage

  (Scarlatti, Currier, Debussy, Liebermann, Schumann, Chopin/Liszt)

• Nov 17: Eugene Symphony/Danail Rachev

  (Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini)

Joyce Yang’s Whirlwind Summer

Pianist Joyce Yang spent the Fourth of July packing for two straight months on the summer festival circuit, mere days after performing concertos in Asia, and with no respite from her red-letter spring. Following her Alice Tully Hall recital debut at Lincoln Center in May, she jumped in for an ill Yuja Wang as soloist in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the NAC Orchestra. The Ottawa Citizen described Yang's performance as "gripping." In June the 25-year-old Korean-American recorded her debut album, Collage, to be released this fall by Avie.

First in Yang’s high-profile appearances this summer is the Aspen Music Festival where she performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Jaap van Zweden and the Music Festival Orchestra (July 10), and plays a recital with violinist Stefan Jackiw (July 16). She is soloist in Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Russian National Orchestra at the Festival del Sole in Napa (July 24) and at Brevard (July 29), and joins artistic director Anne-Marie McDermott at Bravo! Vail Valley for a “Two Piano Extravaganza” (Aug. 3).

Yang makes her debut at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in recital (August 9) and plays a quartet of chamber music concerts, including the premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's Piano Quartet with the Orion String Quartet (August 10-14). She reprises the Dalbavie at La Jolla SummerFest and joins the Tokyo String Quartet for music by Cynthia Lee Wong (August 16-21). For a look at Joyce Yang’s glittering fingerwork, view this YouTube clip of a rehearsal of the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Edo de Waart in Hong Kong last month.

Joyce Yang makes Lincoln Center recital debut May 5

Pianist Joyce Yang had only finished her freshman year at Juilliard when she snared the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Competition, becoming the youngest prizewinner in the competition's history. Between classes, she toured the world, performing on multiple occasions with the New York Philharmonic, and the Chicago, San Francisco and Houston symphonies, among many others. In 2010 she received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Now, Juilliard has given its celebrated alum the William Petschek Piano Recital Award: a recital at Alice Tully Hall. Previous Petschek recipients have included Jeremy Denk, Jon Kimura Parker and Orion Weiss.

Yang will perform works by Scarlatti, Debussy, Chopin-Liszt and Schumann, along with related contemporary pieces: Sebastian Currier's Scarlatti Cadences and Brainstorm and Lowell Liebermann's Gargoyles. The program is designed "to have each piece illuminate the one that follows," says Yang. View video of Yang performing Gargoyles.

The 25-year-old Korean American heads into the studio at the end of May to record a solo album. Global audiences were able to enjoy her recent performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Sydney Symphony under Edo De Waart. The April 11 concert was streamed live via a new Android and iPhone mobile app, and touted as the debut of the world's first series of orchestral concerts to be streamed live through mobile applications, according to the Sydney Symphony and Telstra BigPond.

For more information, visit Joyce Yang's web site or the Opus 3 Artists web site.

Joyce Yang steps in for Lang Lang

Pianist Joyce Yang pinch-hit for an indisposed Lang Lang in snowy Buffalo on January 29th with the Buffalo Philharmonic under JoAnn Falletta. The Buffalo News headline declared, "Yang is the real deal" after her performance of Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto. "She stepped into [Lang Lang's] shoes, at the last minute. And she did a fine job of it, too... The finale, written to bring the house down, did exactly that." The 24-year-old pianist basked in warm climates and equally warm attention in recent weeks in a Florida recital with violinist Stefan Jackiw and her first collaboration with the Miró Quartet in California. "The first date is so exciting," Yang said in a La Jolla Chamber Music Society preview interview. "[Playing with a new group] is like going on a blind date with really good recommendations. See if the sparks fly." They did. "Yang has been a formidable presence over the last three SummerFest seasons, clearly realizing the promise that garnered her the Silver Medal at the Van Cliburn International Competition in 2005. Her patrician touch and lithe phrasing in the Mozart Piano Quartet complemented the Miró strings at every turn." --SanDiego.com, 1/25/11 [Kenneth Herman]