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Joyce Yang, Piano
Friday, February 8, 2008
at 8:00 pm
Recital Hall - $32
In 2005, at nineteen years of age, Joyce Yang was awarded the silver medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest of the Cliburn Competition’s participants, she was the recipient of both the award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music as well as the award for Best Performance of a New Work. She made her New York Philharmonic debut with Lorin Maazel in November.
Born in Korea, Joyce moved to the United States in 1997 and grew up in the Stony Brook area.
She began studies at the pre-college division of the Juilliard School of Music and during her
first year there, won its Pre-College Concerto Competition.
She performed the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 with
the Philadelphia Orchestra when she was just twelve. She currently resides in
New York City where she continues to study at the Juilliard School.
Ms. Yang’s program will include Schumann Carnaval Op. 9, Brahms Klavierstuke Op. 119,
and Carl Vine Sonata No. 1 and four sonatas by Scarlatti.
Program subject to change.
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