JOYCE YANG OPENS NASHVILLE SYMPHONY SEASON, TOURS WITH AUGUSTIN HADELICH, RELEASES TWO NEW ALBUMS IN 2013–14

Following a summer tour with appearances at five festivals, pianist Joyce Yang kicks off her 2013–14 season by opening the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s fall classical series, performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 under the baton of Giancarlo Guerrero (Sep 5–7). Other season highlights include a five-city tour with rising-star violinist Augustin Hadelich, beginning January 3 in Dallas, Texas. The duo will also collaborate with Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas in “Tango, Song & Dance” at the Kennedy Center (April 21).

On March 11, the award-winning pianist releases two new albums: Wild Dreams, her second solo disc for Avie Records, a collection of Schumann, Rachmaninov, Bartók and Hindemith; and a Foghorn Classics pairing of the Brahms and Schumann Piano Quintets with the Alexander String Quartet.

Joyce Yang—whose playing has been described as “poetic and sensitive” by the Washington Post and “vivid and beautiful” by the New York Times—makes her Seattle solo recital debut on February 19, and she plays Gershwin’s Concerto in F with four orchestras, including March 7–9 with the Fort Worth Symphony under Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

In the spring, Joyce concludes her multi-season Rachmaninov cycle with the Milwaukee Symphony under Edo de Waart (April 25–27), and returns to the Vancouver Symphony (May 10–12) for Bernstein’s “The Age of Anxiety.” She caps her season across the Atlantic with more Rachmaninov under de Waart, this time with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic (May 29–31).