Joyce Yang’s Hot Summer Includes Rach 1 with New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center (July 2, 3) and in Vail (July 25)

June 30th, 2014
Joyce Yang’s Hot Summer Includes Rach 1 with New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center (July 2, 3) and in Vail (July 25)

Joyce Yang’s summer engagements include a high-profile collaboration with the New York Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The pianist – who has been praised by the New York Times for her “vivid and beautiful playing” – performs with the Philharmonic and conductor Bramwell Tovey as part of an all-Russian program titled “Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Friends” in the orchestra’s popular Summertime Classics series on July 2 and 3 at Lincoln Center. She rejoins the orchestra out west on July 25 in the same work during the Philharmonic’s Colorado residency at the Bravo! Vail festival. Yang also brings her “jaw-dropping technique and tremendous flair” (Aspen Times) back to the Aspen Music Festival, where she plays Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Aspen Chamber Symphony under Osmo Vänskä (July 18); a solo recital (July 23); and chamber music with violinist Augustin Hadelich and guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas (July 26), reprising their “Tango, Song and Dance” program which the trio premiered at the Kennedy Center this past spring.