Joyce Yang

Joyce Yang is a classical pianist. Yang was awarded the silver medal at the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 19, the youngest competitor there. During the same competition, Joyce was also awarded both the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music, as well as the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work. At age nine, Yang went to New York with her mother and aunt to play for Yoheved Kaplinsky. At age ten she entered the Korean National Conservatory studying under Choong Mo Kang. In 1997 Joyce moved to the United States, and began studying in the Juilliard School's pre-college division with Kaplinsky. While in New York, she attended Ward Melville High School in Suffolk County, while her mother, a molecular biologist, was at SUNY Stony Brook. As a 16-year-old, she performed with the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra in 2002, performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Other engagements by that age had taken place in conjunction with the Baltimore Symphony, the Long Island Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Yang) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)