{{Infobox musical artist | name = Joyce Yang ({{Korean|hangul=양희원|labels=no}}) | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | image = | caption = Joyce in NoHo, NYC 2016 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|04|11}} | birth_place = Seoul, Korea | genre = {{hlist|Classical music|contemporary classical}} | occupation = Pianist | years_active = | website = {{URL|pianistjoyceyang.com}} | module = }} '''Joyce Yang''' (Korean name 양희원, born 11 April 1986 in Seoul, Korea) is a classical pianist. Yang was awarded the silver medal at the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 19, the youngest competitor there.<ref name="decherald-2005">{{cite news|last1=Cain|first1=Tim|title=Pianist Joyce Yang's silver medal in the Van Cliburn Competition lets Decatur say: 'We heard her when…'|url=http://herald-review.com/lifestyles/pianist-joyce-yang-s-silver-medal-in-the-van-cliburn/article_6bc54cbc-95f8-5c33-af4a-328d73dcfd49.html|newspaper=The Herald Review|date=10 June 2005 |accessdate=5 July 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://orlandophil.org/biographies/2008-09-season/mozart-mendelssohn/joyce-yang/ Joyce Yang, Pianist] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405134043/http://orlandophil.org/biographies/2008-09-season/mozart-mendelssohn/joyce-yang/ |date=2012-04-05 }}</ref> During the same competition, Joyce was also awarded both the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music, as well as the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work.<ref name="decherald-2005"/><ref>[http://www.cliburn.org/index.php?page=twelfth_2005 Van Cliburn Foundation - Twelfth International Piano Competition - 2005]</ref>
At age nine, Yang went to New York with her mother and aunt to play for Yoheved Kaplinsky. At age ten she entered the Korean National Conservatory studying under Choong Mo Kang.{{Citation needed|date=February 2007}} In 1997 Joyce moved to the United States,<ref name="weagle-2024"/> and began studying in the Juilliard School's pre-college division with Kaplinsky.<ref name="julliard-2010">{{Cite web |url=http://www.juilliard.edu/newsroom/releases/2010-11/2011-05-05_JoyceYang-mobile.php |title=Pianist Joyce Yang Wins Julilliard's 30th Annual William Petschek Recital Award (2011) |access-date=2011-10-19 |archive-date=2012-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402151815/http://www.juilliard.edu/newsroom/releases/2010-11/2011-05-05_JoyceYang-mobile.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> While in New York, she attended Ward Melville High School in Suffolk County, while her mother, a molecular biologist, was at SUNY Stony Brook.<ref name="nyt-2002">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/nyregion/young-musician-reaches-out-with-her-piano.html | title=Young Musician Reaches Out With Her Piano | first= Barbara | last=Delatiner | newspaper=The New York Times | date= July 28, 2002}}</ref>
As a 16-year-old, she performed with the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra in 2002, performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1.<ref name="decherald-2005"/> Other engagements by that age had taken place in conjunction with the Baltimore Symphony, the Long Island Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.<ref name="nyt-2002"/>
Yang graduated from Juilliard's college division with a bachelor of music degree in 2010 and a special honor, as the recipient of that year's Arthur Rubinstein Prize.<ref name="julliard-2010"/>
[[Image:Oregon.symphony.with.joyce.yang.on.piano.jpg|thumb|left|Yang playing with the Oregon Symphony in 2024; the program featured Liszt's ''Totentanz'' ]]
By 2014 she had an increasingly successful career as a soloist and performer of concertos and was also establishing herself as a chamber musician.<ref name="nyt-040914"/> Her 2014 recordings with the Alexander String Quartet of quintet pieces by Brahms and Schuman were favorably reviewed.<ref name="nyt-040914">{{cite news | url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/classical-playlist-jeffrey-mumford-mozart-brahms-and-more/?searchResultPosition=12 | title=Classical Playlist: Jeffrey Mumford, Mozart, Brahms and More | newspaper=The New York Times | date=April 9, 2014}}</ref>
A review by ''New York Times'' music critic Zachary Woolfe of Yang's rendition of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, played in 2014 with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, said that it was a "sumptuous, powerful, subtle performance ... Even her most poundingly virtuosic passages were distinguished by a variety of touch and color, and she was sensitive throughout to the piano’s interactions with the orchestra."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-summertime-classics-series-opens.html?searchResultPosition=7 | title=A Seasonal Staple, Slightly Less Buttoned Down | first=Zachary | last=Woolfe | newspaper=The New York Times | date=July 3, 2014}}</ref> A review by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim in the same newspaper said of Yang's 2016 performance of the Manuel de Falla composition ''Nights in the Gardens of Spain'' with the New York Philharmonic said she gave the solo part in it a "temperamental yet crisp reading ... which was sometimes overwhelmed by colorful but overly loud orchestral playing. Ms. Yang proved especially attuned to the various roles the piano assumed, slipping into the guise of percussionist one moment, only to soften into silky melodic playing the next."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/arts/music/review-spanish-nights-of-falla-and-massenet.html?searchResultPosition=1 | title=Review: ‘Spanish Nights’ of Falla and Massenet | first=Corinna | last=da Fonseca-Wollheim | newspaper=The New York Times | date=April 1, 2016}}</ref>
[[Image:Joyce Yang at end of performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony.jpg|thumb|right|Yang accepting applause from the audience and from conductor Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony at the conclusion of a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in 2025]]
Joyce Yang performed as soloist with the Kansas City Symphony for the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff's ''Piano Concerto'' in 2019. She has made a number of appearances with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra.<ref name="weagle-2024">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-wichita-eagle/182867516/ | title=Pianist Yang returns to perform a Grieg classic concerto | first=David | last=Burke | newspaper=The Wichita Eagle | date=November 10, 2024 | page=C1 | via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==2017 Grammy Award nomination==
On November 28, 2017 Yang and Italian violinist Augustin Hadelich's 2016 album ''Works for Violin and Piano by Franck, Kurtág, Previn, Schumann'' was nominated for the 60th Annual Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance in the Classical Music category. It was Yang's first Grammy Award nomination.<ref>{{cite web|title=GRAMMYs - Joyce Yang {{!}} Artist|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/joyce-yang/188921|website=Recording Academy|access-date=31 January 2018}}</ref>
==Debuts== {| class="wikitable" ! venue !! date !! work |- | Dallas Symphony Orchestra || 6 June 2009<ref>[http://www.dallassymphony.com/Press_Releases.aspx?aID=56 Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Press Releases: DSO sets Casual Classics schedule (4 April 2009)]</ref> || Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto Number 2 |}
==Discography== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! date !! title !! type !! artists !! publisher !! notes !! reference |- | 11 October 2005 || ''Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition<br />Joyce Yang, Silver Medalist'' || solo recording || Joyce Yang || Harmonia Mundi || || <ref>{{cite web|title=Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - Joyce Yang, Silver Medalist|url=http://www.harmoniamundi.com/7043.htm#!/albums/999|website=Harmonia Mundi|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> |- | 11 October 2011 || ''Collage'' || solo recording || Joyce Yang || Avie Records || || <ref>{{cite web|title=Collage|url=https://www.avie-records.com/releases/collage/|website=Avie Records|date=25 April 2013 |accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> |- | 11 February 2014 || ''Tchaikovsky: Tempest, Piano Concerto No. 1'' || orchestral || Joyce Yang<br />Alexander Lazarev, conductor<br />Odense Symphony Orchestra || Bridge Records || debut concerto recording || <ref>{{cite web|title=Tchaikovsky: Tempest, Piano Concerto No. 1|url=https://bridgerecords.com/products/9410|website=Bridge Records|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> |- | 11 March 2014 || ''Wild Dreams'' || solo recording || Joyce Yang || Avie Records || || <ref>{{cite web|title=Wild Dreams|url=https://www.avie-records.com/releases/wild-dreams/|website=Avie Records|date=3 February 2014 |accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> |- | 11 March 2014 || ''Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets'' || chamber music || Joyce Yang<br />Alexander String Quartet || Foghorn Classics || || <ref>{{cite web|title=Brahms & Schumann: The Piano Quintets|url=https://foghornclassics.com/brahms_schumann_piano_quintets.html|website=Foghorn Classics|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> |- | 13 September 2016 || ''Michael Torke: Three Manhattan Bridges'' || orchestral || Joyce Yang, piano<br />Julie Albers, cello<br />David Alan Miller, conductor<br />Albany Symphony Orchestra || Albany Records || || <ref>{{cite web|title=Michael Torke: Three Manhattan Bridges|url=http://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=TROY1643|website=Albany Records|accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> |- | 11 November 2016 || ''Works for Violin and Piano by Franck, Kurtág, Previn, Schumann'' || chamber music || Augustin Hadelich, violin<br />Joyce Yang, piano || Avie Records || nominated for 2018 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance || <ref>{{cite web|title=Works for Violin and Piano by Franck, Kurtág, Previn, Schumann|url=http://www.avie-records.com/releases/works-for-violin-and-piano-by-franck-kurtag-previn-schumann/|website=Avie Records|date=21 September 2016 |accessdate=30 January 2018}}</ref> |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.pianistjoyceyang.com/ Joyce Yang official website]
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