The Grand Teton Music Festival continues its Sunday Matinee Piano Recital series with Joyce Yang, silver medalist in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Yang promises an “incredibly challenging” program made up of “many small pieces of contrasting moods and colors.”
“I hope people will feel like there’s a whole orchestra trapped inside the piano,” she said.
The afternoon performance, set to start at 3 p.m. at Walk Festival Hall in Teton Village, will start with selections from Norwegian Edvard Grieg’s “Lyric Pieces” — “small, intimate, beautiful, humorous and poetic” gems, Yang called them.
“Then I dive into darker and more vivid hues,” she said: Rachmaninoff’s 10 Preludes. “I spent a great deal of time working on these during the pandemic. … All I wanted to do was get closer to Rachmaninoff.”
Rachmaninoff wrote 24 preludes in all, but Yang will play just 10 — which ought to be plenty.
“They are technically and emotionally challenging,” she said. “And as soon as the emotions take over, it becomes hard to play the right notes. It takes both the head and the heart.”
