Joyce Yang—Classical Pianist
Birth
Joyce Yang was born in Seoul, South Korea, and received her first piano lessons at age four from her aunt.
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Joyce Yang (born 1986 in Seoul, Korea) is a classical music pianist.
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Education
She began playing piano at age four as her aunt's first piano student; at age ten, she entered the Korean National Conservatory.[citation needed] In 1997, Joyce moved to New York and began studying in Juilliard's pre-college division.[citation needed] While in New York, she attended Ward Melville High School.
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Fame
Description: Korea?s Joyce Yang is the winner of the silver metal in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
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JOYCE YANG, winner of the 1999 Salon De Virtuosi Sony grant, was born in Korea in 1986 and made her orchestral debut there at nine years of age.
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Work
Joyce Yang received her first piano as a birthday present from her aunt when she was four and immediately took to the instrument. After winning several national competitions in her native South Korea, she moved to the United States to begin studies at the Juilliard School of Music's pre-college division. Her victory at the Philadelphia Orchestra's Greenfield Competition for students led to her debut with that orchestra at the Academy of Music when she was twelve. ... An avid chamber musician, she is a regular guest artist of the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. In addition to the silver medal, Ms. Yang was awarded the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music and the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work at the 2005 Cliburn Competition.
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Joyce Yang, Korea Seventeen-year-old Korean-American pianist Joyce Yang opens this season?s Rising Stars Recital Series. She came to the United States at age eleven, and began studies at the Juilliard School. During her first year there she won its Pre-College Division Concerto Competition. Then, in April 1999, she won the Philadelphia Orchestra?s student competition, which led to a performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the beginnings of a young career. She is in her senior year of high school and continues her studies at Juilliard.
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Joyce Yang was born in Seoul, Korea in April 1986. Joyce began playing piano at age four as her aunt's first piano student; at age ten, she entered the Korean National Conservatory. ... Her interests include shopping, visiting art museums, and listening to smooth jazz. Currently, Joyce is touring the U.S., playing concerts with numerous orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra.
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She performed Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3 with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 98 and in '99 played with the Juilliard Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. She is now a student at the Juilliard Preparatory Division where she studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky.
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In November 2006, Joyce Yang makes her New York Philharmonic debut with Lorin Maazel in Avery Fisher Hall, preceded by concerts with them in Korea. ... Joyce Yang continues to captivate audiences and colleagues with her warm and generous personality, combined with musicianship that belies her age. ... Born in Seoul, Korea, Joyce received her first piano lessons at age four from her aunt. ... Winning at the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Greenfield Competition led to a performance of the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Philadelphia Orchestra when she was just twelve. Joyce Yang is featured in In the Heart of Music, the film documentary about the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Her debut disc distributed by harmonia mundi usa includes live performances of works by Bach, Liszt, Scarlatti, and the Australian composer Carl Vine.
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By age 10 she had entered the Korean National Conservatory and made a number of concerto and recital appearances in Seoul and Daejon.
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Nineteen-year-old Joyce Yang of South Korea, the youngest finalist, won the silver medal.
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