Albuquerque, NM

End of day busy-ness thoughts chatter through the brain. Fatigue setting in which is ok at this time of night after PT, swimming, sauna, and a draining guest followed by yardwork, dinner, and reading too many e-mails plus an hour long conference call. So I discover about the upcoming visit of Joyce Yang. Joyce who? you say? Well she’s famous, young,Asian, beautiful and a pianist. She just happens to be an award winning pianist. Accordingly I zoom over to You tube and check out a video. The video starts off very slowly, and I fear, gee, I’ll have to write another blog. But then suddenly, she has a very complicated part which she executes with such finesse and command that all fatigue disappears and I thirst for MORE. Encore!

There’s a bit of bio from wikipedia and then hit the video. I have to go off to listen to more classical music! Ah…life begins again as powerful as the burst of spring. Enjoy. SIng! Dance under the stars. Let gratitude fill your breast and your heart beat rapidily as if in love for the first time (with life). Namaste. (see what a little classical can do? Listen.

Joyce Yang (born 1986 in Seoul, Korea) is a classical music pianist.

She began playing piano at age four as her aunt’s first piano student(her aunt bought her a piano for her fourth birthday present); at age ten, she entered the Korean National Conservatory, while she also swept many awards from numerous competitions in South Korea.[citation needed] In 1997, Joyce moved to New York and began studying in Juilliard’s pre-college division, studying with Veda Kaplinsky. .[citation needed] While in New York, she attended Ward Melville High School.

She gained international renown during the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, in which she was awarded the silver medal despite being the competition’s youngest participant.[citation needed] During the same competition, Joyce was also awarded both the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music, as well as the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work.[citation needed]

During the 2007-08 season, Joyce Yang is touring the United States, playing concerts with a variety of symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra.[citation needed]

[edit] Takacs Quartet & Joyce Yang
Occurrences: Dates: Wednesday, Apr 09 2008
Times: 7:30 PM

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