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Joyce Yang Debuts with the San Diego Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto

By Ken Herman | November 13, 2016 |

Joyce Yang, the much-heralded Korean concert pianist, joined the San Diego Symphony this weekend in a performance of Segei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Having graced the roster of La Jolla SummerFest in several recent seasons, she is a known quantity here, and the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall was filled with fans of both…

From Russia with Love

By Ken Herman | August 19, 2015 |

As a prelude to SummerFest’s upcoming weekend of all-Shostakovich programs, Tuesday’s (August 18) SummerFest concert offered an overview of Russian music just before the Russian Revolution . . .