A “jaw-dropping pianist who steals the show…with effortless finesse” (Washington Post), pianist Amy Yang aspires to affirm and advance connections between the arts and its communities through committed expressions of musical leadership on and off stage.

In the recent past, she soloed with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä at Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center; recorded the complete Schumann Sonatas (on fortepiano) with violinist Alexi Kenney; played with saxophonist Valentin Kovalev at Carnegie Recital Hall; toured throughout the U.S. with Merz Trio; gave world premieres of pieces by Steve Mackey and Richard Danielpour; taught as faculty of New York Youth Symphony, Dallas Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Athens, Norfolk, Borromeo and Olympic Music Festivals; played for patients at Penn Memory Center and the ICUs of UW Hospital; recorded for Curtis Studio’s new release – A Century of New Sounds – with David Shifrin and Patrick Williams; played solo recitals of Brahms, the Schumanns, Rorem, Ligeti; and appeared on series and festivals such as Spoleto, Chamberfest Cleveland, Texas Music Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Series, Music Middays, Santa Fe Music Festival, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Bridgehampton, amongst others. At the Curtis Institute of Music, she serves as the Director of Chamber Music and Piano Studies.              

In the height of the pandemic in 2020, she was invited by Anne-Marie McDermott to share a unique summer of 41 concerts with Yefim Bronfman, Paul Neubauer, and the Dover Quartet in a myriad of performances at Bravo! Vail. Additionally, she gave her debut solo recital as well as joined forces with the Jasper String Quartet in piano quintets by Tania Léon and Joan Tower for Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s 35th season. She was also featured in a full episode with Emmy® Award-winning producer Jim Cotter of Articulate, aired on PBS in 2021.

Collaborating with trailblazing musicians, Amy toured with Patricia Kopatchinskaya, Tito Muñoz and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and premiered a large chamber work by Michael Hersch at Cal Performances, Ojai Music Festival and Aldeburgh Festival. She has had the privilege to share stages (and benches) with Richard Goode, Anne-Marie McDermott, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Miriam Fried, Hsin-Yun Huang, Paul Huang, Alexi Kenney, Bomsori Kim, Tessa Lark, Roberto Díaz, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Neubauer, Tara Helen O’Conor, David Shifrin, Joseph Silverstein, Philippe Tondre, Danbi Um, members of Guarneri String Quartet, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Dover Quartet, Aizuri String Quartet, Jasper String Quartet and A Far Cry. In addition to working with Dame Mitsuko Uchida at Marlboro School of Music, she was chosen to participate in her Carnegie Hall Workshop on Mozart’s Piano Concerti.

Amy’s energetic exploration of contemporary voices has brought forth giving world premieres of music by Caroline Shaw, Richard Danielpour, Avner Dorman, Michael Hersch, Ezra Laderman, Paul Wianko, and commissions from Scott Ordway, Edward Babcock, Alistair Coleman and Hua Yang. Festival experiences include Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Prussia Cove, Verbier Academy, Bravo! Vail, Chamber Music Northwest, Chelsea Music Festival, Caramoor, Wigmore Hall, Gardner Museum, Cal Performances, Rockport Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Hawaii Concert Society, Coastal Concerts (DE), and Saltbay Chamberfest.  She has loved soloing alongside the collective voices of Houston Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Mansfield Symphony and Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata at UNAM.

Her discography includes her solo album Resonance (MSR Classics), a world premiere recording of piano music by Ezra Laderman (Albany Records), a world premiere recording of Michael Hersch’s I hope we get a chance to visit soon (Live from Aldeburgh Festival, New Focus Records), Curtis Studio’s A Century of New Sounds with David Shifrin and Patrick Williams, and albums with violinists Itamar Zorman (BIS Records), Tessa Lark (First Hand Records), Danbi Um (Avie Records), Carol Jantsch, and José Franch-Ballester (iTinerant Records). 

Amy is an alumna of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, and the Yale School of Music, where she received the Parisot Award for Outstanding Pianist and the Alumni Association Prize. Her past teachers include Li Qing, Timothy Hester, Claude Frank, Robert McDonald, and Peter Frankl. Ardent to champion young voices on this pedagogical legacy, her own students have soloed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and entered Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Bard Conservatory, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, Eastman School of Music, Peabody Institute, and Indiana University. She has given masterclasses at UCLA, Mannes College of Music, University of Oklahoma, The Suzuki School, and for New York Youth Symphony. She won the 2018 Musical Fund Society prize and the Kosciuszko National Chopin Piano Competition. At Curtis Institute of Music, she previously held the roles of program director and faculty of Curtis Summerfest’s Young Artist Summer Program for nine summers.  

When not serving the various keyboards related to her roles, her intentionally incognito presence may be revealed by a quivering Micron pen as she sketches from the back of concert halls. She ponders the work of a lifetime, with her favorite cups of tea, in the quietude of her study spaces.

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