Amy Yang

Hailed by Harris Goldsmith of The New York Concert Review as "a magnificent artist and poet: everything she touches turns to gold--a Midas touch for tone and music", twenty-six-year-old pianist and visual artist Amy Jiaqi Yang is already a seasoned performer and collaborator. A rising star who, "artistically, has fully arrived" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Ms. Yang's memorable performances "elevate joy to the edge of rapture" and "conveys the exuberance and enthusiasm of youth" (Star-Telegram).

Most recently, she performed with Richard Goode at The Marlboro Music Festival, made debuts at Caramoor and Music in May Festivals, Steinway Hall, Perelman Theatre, Marlboro College, the Van Cliburn Competition, and recorded a CD with violinist Chen Xi. Upcoming performances include an all-Schumann cycle, a chamber music tour in Spain, a debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, and recitals around major U.S. cities and Spain. Ms. Yang also commands a diverse and immense repertory. In this past season, she has performed works ranging from Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire", to Beethoven's Sonata in Bb, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier", to Ezra Laderman's Third Piano Sonata.

An experienced performer, Ms. Yang has concertized at The Kennedy Center, The Gardner Museum, The White House, Carnegie Recital Hall, Philadelphia's Academy of Music, Perelman Theatre, Jones Hall, Bennett-Gordon Hall, Columbia, Miami, and Rockefeller Universities, The New School, Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall (Istanbul), on The Tulsa Chamber Music Series, and at The Ravinia Festival and Lubus International Festival of Poland. Ms. Yang plans to perform Schumann's complete major piano and chamber works in her lifetime and launched the first concert near Philadelphia last fall.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Yang has collaborated with Richard Goode, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, Ronald Leonard, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Miriam Fried, Ida Levin, Philip Setzer, Judith Serkin, Fred Sherry, Tara Helen O'Conor, Paul Neubauer, Kim Kashkashian, Anne-Marie and Kerry McDermott, and Marina Piccinini. She toured with Musicians from Ravinia in 2007.

Ms. Yang has garnered exclusively first prizes at the International Corpus Christi Young Artists' Competition, the National Chopin Piano Competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation, the International Sonatina and Sonata Piano Competition, the Lennox National Young Artists Competition, and the International Chopin Piano Competition (Corpus Christi). 2002 marked her Houston Symphony debut. Festival credits include Prussia Cove, Verbier Academy, Ravinia Festival, OK Mozart Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival.

Ms. Yang is 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 Piano Student as well as the Alumni Association Prize. Her principal teachers are Timothy Hester, Claude Frank, Robert McDonald, and Peter Frankl. She devotes her spare time to drawing, painting, reading great literature, playing classical guitar, and learning about art history and psychology. Her compositions have been premiered on Juilliard's Double Visions series.