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Joyce Yang

from South Korea
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UPDATE: In alignment with Oregon State University’s live event policy, we will require masks and proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within three days prior to this concert. Proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test must be accompanied by a photo ID. For additional information please review OSU’s event guidelines: https://covid.oregonstate.edu/attending-events-fall-2021

Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity.

She first came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest contestant at 19 years old, she took home two additional awards: Best Performance of Chamber Music (with the Takàcs Quartet), and Best Performance of a New Work.

In the last decade, Yang has blossomed into an “astonishing artist” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), showcasing her colorful musical personality in solo recitals and collaborations with the world’s top orchestras and chamber musicians through more than 1,000 debuts and re-engagements. She received the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant and earned her first Grammy nomination (Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance) for her recording of Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann with violinist Augustin Hadelich (“One can only sit in misty-eyed amazement at their insightful flair and spontaneity.” – The Strad).

Yang’s wide-ranging discography includes the world premiere recording of Michael Torke’s Piano Concerto, created expressly for Yang and commissioned by the Albany Symphony. Yang has also “demonstrated impressive gifts” (New York Times) with the release of Wild Dreams (Avie Records), on which she plays Schumann, Bartók, Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, and arrangements by Earl Wild. She recorded Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Denmark’s Odense Symphony Orchestra that International Record Review called “hugely enjoyable, beautifully shaped … a performance that marks her out as an enormous talent.” Of her 2011 debut album for Avie Records, Collage, featuring works by Scarlatti, Liebermann, Debussy, Currier, and Schumann, Gramophone praised her “imaginative programming” and “beautifully atmospheric playing.”

Photo Credit: KT Kim

Awards & Recognition

2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant
2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Silver medal

October 17, 2021
4:00 pm
LaSells Stewart Center
Oregon State University
875 SW 26th St
Corvallis, OR 97331
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J. S. BACH
French Suite No. 5 in G Major
RACHMANINOFF
Ten Preludes, Op. 23
TCHAIKOVSKY
June (Barcarolle) from The Seasons, Op. 37a
LISZT
Sonata in B minor
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"The sound is bold and modern, yet restrained. The precision of the fingerwork is astounding."

—BBC Music Magazine
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