December 14, 2007
Those lucky enough to be in the audience when 13-year-old Joyce Yang made her professional debut with the California Symphony in 1999—along with those who weren’t—will not want to miss her triumphant return on January 27 and 29 as a world-renowned 2005 Van Cliburn Silver Medalist.
Now 21, the Korean-born former prodigy has grown up to become one of the most gifted pianists of her generation. Yang regularly performs with world-class orchestras and in major recitals—the result of capturing second place in what has called “an Olympian event in the world of classical music.” Yang was not only the youngest competitor in a field of 35 in the last Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, held every four years, she was also selected to receive 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.
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