 Just 19 years old, Yang was the competition's youngest participant at the time.During the same competition, Joyce was also awarded both the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music, as well as the Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work.Joyce Yang is scheduled to perform as soloist with the Kansas City Symphony for the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff's "Piano Concerto" on November 22, 2019, in Kansas City's Helzberg Hall.