Amy Yang, Piano

Biography

Hailed by The New York Concert Review as "a magnificent artist and poet", pianist Amy Yang is a seasoned soloist and chamber musician. who has concertized in many major halls in the United States and abroad in Turkey, Spain, Poland, and China. First prizewinner of competitions including the International Corpus Christi Young Artists' Competition and the Kosciuszko National Chopin Piano Competition, she has soloed with the Houston Symphony, Great Hall Chamber Orchestra, Mansfield Symphony, and Shenyang Conservatory Orchestra, among others.

Passionate about chamber music, she has appeared at a variety of music festivals including Marlboro Music, Ravinia Festival, Prussia Cove Masterclasses, Verbier Academy, Music Academy of the West, Music from Angel Fire, and Chamber Music Northwest. An advocate for new music, she has given world premieres of music by Ezra Laderman and the latest Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw.

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. She loves literature, psychology, neuroscience, art history, and drawing caricatures.