January 4, 2012
25-year-old virtuoso returns to Bass Hall in a recital featuring
works by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, and Liebermann.
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Fort Worth, Texas, January 4, 2012-Pianist Joyce Yang, silver
medalist and winner of the Steven De Groote Award for Best
Performance of Chamber Music and the Beverley Taylor Smith Award
for Best Performance of a New Work at the Twelfth Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition in 2005, will take the stage of
Bass Performance Hall as part of the Cliburn Concerts series on
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. Acclaimed as one of the most
gifted pianists of her generation, Ms. Yang will charm North Texas
audiences with a program featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach,
Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, and Lowell
Liebermann. Single tickets for this concert are available from
$15-$90 and can be purchased at Cliburn.org, by calling
817.212.4280, or in person at the Bass Hall Box Office (525
Commerce Street, Fort Worth, Texas).
Since her 2005 Cliburn Competition win, Joyce Yang has garnered
international praise for her combination of stunning virtuosity,
heartfelt lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity. She has been
described as an "astonishing artist" by Germany's Neue Zürcher
Zeitung and as "more than a young pianist who can dazzle with sheer
technique," by The Aspen Times. Ms. Yang is continually engaged as
a soloist with orchestras in the United States and abroad,
performing with the New York, Los Angeles, and BBC Philharmonics,
as well as the Chicago, San Francisco, and Baltimore Symphonies,
among others. In recital, she has appeared at the Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C., Chicago's Symphony Hall, and Lincoln Center's
Alice Tully Hall. Additionally, she is an avid chamber musician and
enjoys an ongoing collaboration with the Takács String Quartet, and
makes regular appearances at summer music festivals in Aspen, La
Jolla, and Santa Fe.
Born in 1986, in Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Yang received her first
piano as a birthday gift and began lessons at the age of 4.
Following wins at several national competitions across her home
country, she entered the School of Music at the National University
of Arts at the age of 10. Ms. Yang moved to the United States to
study in the Pre-College division of The Juilliard School with Dr.
Yoheved Kaplinsky in 1997. She graduated from Juilliard with
special honors and is the recipient of the 2010 Arthur Rubinstein
Prize and the William Petschek Piano Recital Award. In 2010, Ms.
Yang was also awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, one of the most
prestigious prizes in classical music. A Steinway Artist, Ms. Yang
makes her home in New York City.
Ms. Yang's Cliburn Concerts program
will include:
J.S. Bach, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903
Debussy, Estampes
Liebermann, Gargoyles, Op. 29
Schubert, Impromptu in G-flat Major, Op. 90, No. 3
Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
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