Pianist JOYCE YANG in Recital

Sunday, April 7, 2024, 7 p.m.

Dazzling Korean-American pianist Joyce Yang, who captivated Kohl audiences at our 35th Anniversary Gala in 2017, returns with a selection of her favorite preludes by Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky’s masterful Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano.

6:00 PM – Pre-concert talk by Christopher Costanza, Cellist of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Artist in Residence, Lecturer, Stanford University

7:00 PM – Concert

9 PM – Celebrate with a complimentary glass of wine and dessert!

About Joyce Yang

Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (The Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), critically acclaimed pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity. She first came to international attention in 2005, when she won the Silver Medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest contestant at 19 years old, she took home two additional awards: Best Performance of Chamber Music and Best Performance of a New Work. A year later, Yang made her celebrated New York Philharmonic debut alongside Lorin Maazel at Lincoln Center followed by the orchestra’s tour of Asia, making a triumphant return to her home city of Seoul, South Korea; Yang initially studied at the School of Music at the Korea National University of the Arts and later at New York’s Juilliard School.

Yang has subsequently returned to perform with the New York Philharmonic several times and regularly appears with the orchestras of Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Ft. Worth, Toronto, Berlin, Sydney, and London performing the concertos of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Michael Torke, and summer festivals including Aspen, Wolf Trap, Sun Valley and Grant Park. An avid chamber musician, Yang has collaborated with the Takács Quartet for Dvořák – part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series – and Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet with members of the Emerson String Quartet at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. Yang has fostered an enduring partnership with the Alexander String Quartet and together released three celebrated recordings under Foghorn Classics. A Steinway artist, Joyce Yang is currently engaged on a nationwide tour of the U.S. performing in recital and with orchestras (including the Samuel Barber Piano Concerto), followed by a return tour of Australia. 

Yang has fostered an enduring partnership with the Alexander String Quartet and together released three celebrated recordings under Foghorn Classics. A Steinway artist, Joyce Yang is currently engaged on a nationwide tour of the U.S. performing in recital and with orchestras (including the Samuel Barber Piano Concerto), followed by a return tour of Australia.

Program

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Selections from The Seasons, Op. 37a
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Seven Preludes from Op. 32 and Op. 23
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Tickets

Single tickets are now on sale and priced $58 (adult), $55 (senior) and $25 (age 30 and under). To purchase recital tickets, call the Box Office at (650) 762-1130 or order online.

Venue Details

Music at Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA.

All programs subject to change.