b'BIOGRAPHY Joyce Yang, piano B lessed with poetic and sensitive pianism (WashingtonPost), Steinway artist Joyce Yang captivates with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity. As a Van Cliburn International Piano Competition silver medalist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, Yang showcases her colorful musical personality in solo recitals and collaborations with the worlds top orchestras and chamber musicians.The youngest 2005 Cliburn contestant at 19, she also took home the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music and the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for Best Performance of a New Work.Photo by KT Kim. She has performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Sydney, and Toronto symphony orchestras, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the BBC Philharmonic (among many others), working with such distinguished conductors as Edo de Waart, Lorin Maazel, James Conlon, Manfred Honeck, Jacques Lacombe, Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson, Bramwell Tovey, Peter Oundjian, and Jaap van Zweden. In recital, Yang has taken the stage at New Yorks Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum; the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Chicagos Symphony Hall; and Zurichs Tonhalle.Highlights of Yangs 2016/2017 season included debuts with the Minnesota Orchestraand San Diego Symphony, recitals in Anchorage, Beverly Hills, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Seattle and concerts with violinist Augustin Hadelich, in Dallas, New York City, Saint Paul, San Francisco and more. The 2016/2017 season also included a performance at Chamber Music International in Dallas with the Alexander String Quartet, with whom she recorded the Brahms and Schumann Piano Quintets, a collaboration with Hadelich for Avie Records and the world premiere recording of Michael Torkes Piano Concerto, created expressly for her, commissioned by the Albany Symphony. She also appeared as orchestral soloist across the nation and a number of summer festivals. Recent season highlights include Yangs debuts with New Jersey Symphony, Royal Flemish Philharmonic and Cambridge International Piano Series, Montreal with I Musici de Montral with Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and Pittsburgh Symphony, playing Schumanns Concerto and multiple returns to the New York Philharmonic. She concluded a five-year Rachmaninoff cycle with de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony and joined the Takcs Quartet for Dvorak in at Lincoln Center.Gramophone praised Yangs albums Collage (2011, Avie Records) as imaginative programming and beautifully atmospheric playing.18 Santa Rosa Symphony(707) 546-8742'