Ring in the New Year with enchanting pianist Joyce Yang, conductor Joseph Illick, and the Performance Santa Fe Orchestra!
The 2:00 PM Family Preview Concert welcomes first-time symphony-goers of all ages – a stupendous chance to experience classical music’s timeless, enthralling artistry.
When then-19-year-old Juilliard first-year Joyce Yang won the silver medal at the 2005 Van Cliburn competition (the youngest person ever to do so), she was vaulted into the world of professional pianism. Since then, she has stunned audiences the world over with her “enchanting,” (The Globe and Mail) “knock-out” (The New York Times) playing and “million-volt presence.” (Dallas Morning News) She began lessons with her aunt at age four after receiving the piano as a birthday present. She moved to New York to study at Juilliard’s Pre-College division at age 11. Since then, she has toured with the New York Philharmonic, graduated from Juilliard with the Arthur Rubinstein prize, and received the Avery Fisher Career grant. Joyce Yang is an “Astonishing virtuoso with tremendous suggestive power and imagination.” (Neue Zurcher Zeitung)
Her luminous performance of Schumann’s piano concerto (her favorite piece, according to a recent Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra interview) will be followed by Beethoven’s triumphant Symphony no.3, “Eroica” (“heroic” in Italian). This intensely emotional symphony, twice the length of the day’s classical concerto, marked the beginning of the Romantic period. Famously, Beethoven originally dedicated the concerto to Napoleon, but upon hearing that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor of the French, ripped the title page (bearing Bonaparte’s name) in half.
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Program
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55
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Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 5:00 pm
- Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM 87501
- Tickets: $27 – $100; Family Preview Concert children $5, adults $20
- Order tickets through PerformanceSantaFe.org or TicketsSantaFe.org
About Joyce Yang: http://www.artsmg.com/Piano/JoyceYang/
For interviews/information/images: Please contact Sandra Noë, Managing Director | Tel: 505.984.8759 | Email: sandra@performancesantafe.org
Photos available upon request.
For season and other information, please visit www.performancesantafe.org
Press release as PDF: Press Release PDF
Performance Santa Fe’s 79th season in 2015-16 is funded by the City of Santa Fe and the 1% Lodgers Tax; New Mexico Arts, a Division of the Office of Cultural Affairs; the McCune Charitable Foundation; and donors, patrons, and sponsors from New Mexico and across the world.