In June 2005, at nineteen years of age, Joyce Yang was awarded the silver medal at the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The prize package included $20,000, three years of U.S. concert engagements, and a compact disc recording on the harmonia mundi usa label. The youngest of the Cliburn Competition's participants, she was also the recipient of both the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music, as well as the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work. Of her spectacular finish at one of the world's most prestigious showcases for young talent, she told reporters, "l'm still dreaming." There is no doubt that Joyce captured the hearts of all who heard her! "The recital's blazing finish, which earned Yang a standing ovation, proved that she is one of the most gifted young pianists of her generation. The large audience should feel privileged to have witnessed her artistry at close range." Laurence E. MacDonald - The Flint Journal The dream continues this summer as Joyce Yang appears with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center, the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival, the Aspen Symphony, and then she opens the season of the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center. In November 2006, Joyce Yang makes her New York Philharmonic debut with Lorin Maazel in Avery Fisher Hall, preceded by concerts with them in Korea. Joyce Yang is featured in In the Heart of Music, the film documentary about the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Her debut disc distributed by harmonia mundi usa includes live performances of works by Bach, Liszt, Scarlatti, and the Australian composer Carl Vine. She currently resides in New York City where she attends the Julliard School as a student of Dr. Yohaved Kaplinsky.