At age nineteen, Joyce Yang was awarded the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest of the Cliburn Competition's participants, she received awards for both Best Performance of Chamber Music and Best Performance of a New Work. Ms. Yang has appeared with many orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony and has performed numerous times with the New York Philharmonic. Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Yang moved to the United States in 1997 to begin studies in the pre-college division of the Julliard School of Music. Currently Ms. Yang is at Juilliard as a student of Dr. Yohaved Kaplinsky.