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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.

After Joyce Yang's April 13 performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with the Corpus Christi Symphony and the piano was wheeled offstage, she returned to the stage with a violin.  Joyce recounts, "The night before the concert I mentioned that I used to play the violin. Maestro John Giordano joked in passing, 'You should sit in for Ravel's Bolero in the second half!'

From Milwaukee to Melbourne this month, critics have been raving about Joyce Yang.  Milwaukee Journel-Sentinel reveled in the "vivid colors" and "beautifully sculpted phrases” in her performance of Rachmaninoff's first piano concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony under Edo de Waart.