JOYCE YANG TO PERFORM AT FIVE SUMMER FESTIVALS

Pianist Joyce Yang has a busy summer this 2013, making orchestral, chamber, and solo appearances at five summer music festivals. The concert-filled season kicks off with the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in Maine, where the Van Cliburn prizewinner performs Bartók’s Out of Doors for solo piano and Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor with the Jupiter String Quartet.

In her first orchestral collaboration of the summer, Joyce returns to Aspen Music Festival in Colorado to play Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Larry Rachleff (July 7). On the previous day, she performs as a chamber musician in Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet alongside Aspen artistic faculty.

After a recital stop in Salida, Colorado, on July 9, the Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient returns to Bravo! Vail for two solo programs. The first of these pairs Schumann’s Fantasiestücke with Rachmaninov’s Sonata in B-flat minor (July 30), while the second includes repertoire from Joyce’s 2011 release Collage (July 31). Her stay in Vail concludes with a “Four Piano Bash,” with fellow pianists Anne-Marie McDermott, Pedja Muzijevic, and Stephen Prutsman.

The Sun Valley Summer Music Festival in Ketchum, Idaho, follows her Colorado concerts, where Yang performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and conductor Alasdair Neale. 

Joyce finishes out her summer at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest in San Diego, California, performing Lutoslawski’s Partita for Violin and Piano with SummerFest artistic director Cho-Liang Lin (Aug 14), and Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion with pianists Joseph Kalichstein and Markus Rhoten, and percussionist Steven Schick (Aug 16).