JOYCE YANG'S 2015-16 SEASON PREVIEW

After a whirlwind summer of performances at eight music festivals - including Aspen, Bravo! Vail, and Ravinia - Joyce embarks on a steady stream of orchestral debuts, returns, and chamber music collaborations. She reunites with the New York Philharmonic under Bramwell Tovey for five concerts of Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain”; makes her New Jersey Symphony debut with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in the orchestra’s season finale and conductor Jacques Lacombe’s last concert as Music Director; performs and records the world premiere of Michael Torke’s Piano Concerto, created expressly for her and commissioned by the Albany Symphony; and returns to the Melbourne Symphony in Australia to play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Additional appearances showcasing her vast repertoire include performances with the Colorado Springs, Orlando, and Reading Philharmonics, and the Alabama, Anchorage, Corpus Christi, Greenwich, Milwaukee, Nashville, Pasadena, Princeton, Santa Fe, Utah, and Vancouver symphonies. In 2016 Avie Records will release Joyce’s recording with her frequent duo partner, violinist Augustin Hadelich, featuring repertoire by Schumann, Kurtág, Franck, and Previn.

Joyce opens the Chamber Music International 30th anniversary season with violinist Sheryl Staples and cellist Carter Brey in Dallas; joins the Alexander String Quartet at San Francisco Performances; appears with the Modigliani Quartet at the Phoenix Chamber Music Society; and reunites with Hadelich and guitarist Pablo Villegas at the La Jolla Music Society and Philharmonic Society of Orange County for a reprise of the trio’s widely acclaimed “Tango, Song, and Dance,” in which “Yang shone” (Washington Post) at its Kennedy Center premiere.  She also plays an innovative program of Albéniz, Debussy, Ginastera, and Rachmaninoff in a series of recitals in New York, Wisconsin, and Virginia.