Joyce Yang

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Joyce Yang Biography

Joyce Yang (born 11 April 1986 in Seoul, Korea) is a Grammy-nominated classical pianist.

Yang began playing piano at age four as her aunt’s first piano student. 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, while she also swept many awards from numerous competitions in South Korea. In 1997 Joyce moved to New York and began studying in Juilliard’s pre-college division with Kaplinsky. While in New York, she attended Ward Melville High School.

Yang gained international renown during the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, in which she was awarded the silver medal. Just 19 years old, Yang was the competition’s youngest participant at the time. 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.

Yang graduated from Juilliard with special honor, as the recipient of the 2010 Arthur Rubinstein Prize.

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.

Joyce Yang is scheduled to perform as soloist with the Kansas City Symphony for the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Piano Concerto on November 22, 2019, in Kansas City’s Helzberg Hall.

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