Amy Yang

Hailed by The New York Concert Review as “a magnificent artist and poet,” pianist Amy Yang is a seasoned performer and collaborator. In the exciting 2011-2012 season, she played 70 concerts with highlights including performing a debut with Great Hall Chamber Orchestra, a tour in Spain, two world premieres by Ezra Laderman and Caroline Shaw at Yale and Princeton Universities, and concerts across the U.S. in spaces such as Merkin Hall, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Turkish Embassy in Washington DC, and the Kravis Center. This summer, she returned to Music in May and Canandaigua Lake Music Festivals; and at the Curtis Institute of Music, she served as piano faculty for its Chamber Music for Adult Musicians Program and Curtis Institute High School Summer Music Program, for which she also was Program Director. Upcoming concerts include solo, chamber, and orchestral engagements in the U.S., Europe, and China with highlights that include collaborative recitals at Weill Recital Hall, on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society series, and debut with the Mansfield Symphony and Chorus in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Op. 80.

An experienced performer, Ms. Yang has concertized in many major halls in the United States and abroad in Turkey, Spain, Poland, and China. First prize winner of competitions including the International Corpus Christi Young Artists’ Competition and the Kosciuszko National Chopin Piano Competition, she made her debut with the Houston Symphony in 2002. Passionate about chamber music, she has collaborated with such extraordinary artists as Richard Goode, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Ida and Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Tara O’Connor, Miriam Fried, Philip Setzer, Fred Sherry, Paul Neubauer, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Kim Kashkashian. She toured with Musicians from Ravinia in 2007. Festival appearances include Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Prussia Cove Masterclasses, Verbier Academy, Music Academy of the West, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, OK Mozart, and Olympic Music Festival.

She is the founder of The Schumann Project, a special series of concerts to present Schumann’s major solo piano, chamber, and vocal works. 2012 saw the exciting release of a new album of chamber music with clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester (iTinerant Records, Spain). Ms. Yang is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, and The Yale School of Music, where she received the Parisot Prize for an Outstanding Pianist as well as the Alumni Association Prize. Her principal teachers are Timothy Hester, Claude Frank, Robert McDonald, and Peter Frankl. She loves literature, psychology, art history, and drawing caricatures at concerts.