Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang joins the SSO under Kevin John Edusei for two performances of Grieg’s iconic piano concerto alongside Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us and Dvořák’s New World Symphony. A solo recital in Sydney follows with selections from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons and Rachmaninov’s Preludes, as well as Agosti’s arrangement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Yang will also be playing these works during the Piano+ 2024 International Recital Series in Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

Returning to Australia by popular demand, Joyce Yang is a Grammy-nominated pianist of extraordinary range, depth and charisma. She has been lauded by the Washington Post for her “poetic and sensitive pianism” and described by the New York Times as a “knockout.

From early and auspicious beginnings in her native Seoul, Joyce Yang’s superb musicianship, brilliance and sheer joy have endeared her to audiences and critics all over the world.

Piano+ is delighted to present this phenomenal musician in a program of works by Tchaikovsky (selections from The Seasons, Op. 37a), Rachmaninoff (Three Preludes from Op. 32 and 23) and Stravinsky (The Firebird Suite), followed by Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. This suite, with its masterful emotional trajectory, is the perfect canvas for this extraordinary artist.

Joyce Yang is a breathtakingly spontaneous and virtuosic artist, grounded in a seemingly effortless technique that allows her, and her audience, to soar.