Yeol Eum Son
Yeol Eum Son (born May 2, 1986, in Wonju, South Korea) is a South Korean cl*ical pianist. She first drew international attention in October 2004 at age 18 when she appeared as a soloist performing Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Lorin Maazel on their Asia tour in Seoul, Daejeon, and Tokyo. Son again performed with Maazel and the New York Philharmonic when they returned to the Seoul Arts Center in February 2008, this time as soloist for Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2.
Her awards include Silver Medals at both the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Compe*ion (2009) and 2011 International Tchaikovsky Compe*ion, where she also received the Best Chamber Concerto Performance and the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work prizes.
Contents
- 1 Childhood
- 2 Career
- 3 Writing career
- 4 Awards
- 5 Discography
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Childhood
Son took her first piano lesson at the age of three and a half. She made a recital debut on *ho Prodigy Concert Series in July 1998. At the age of twelve, she started studying with pianist Kim Dae-jin. At age sixteen, she entered the Korea National University of Arts to continue her piano studies. At the age of 18, she recorded the complete Chopin Etudes (Op. 10 and Op. 25) for a CD on the Universal Music Label.
Career
She has performed with New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, NHK Symphony Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and many others under the batons of Yuri Bashmet, Karel Mark Chichon, Myung-whun Chung, James Conlon, Lawrence Foster, Valery Gergiev, Dmitri Kitayenko, Lorin Maazel, Ludovic Morlot, and others. Since 2006, she has been studying with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre, in Hannover, Germany.
Writing career
Since May 2010, she has written a monthly column for JoongAng Sunday, the Sunday edition of JoongAng Ilbo, one of Korea's most widely read newspapers.
Awards
- 1997: 2nd Prize, International Tchaikovsky Compe*ion for Young Musicians
- 1999: 1st Prize, Oberlin International Piano Compe*ion
- 2001: 1st Prize, The 7th Ettlingen Piano Compe*ion
- 2002: 1st Prize, 53rd Viotti International Music Compe*ion
- 2005: 3rd Prize, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Compe*ion. Finalist, XV International Chopin Piano Compe*ion
- 2008: 1st Prize, Piano Compe*ion Kissinger Klavierolymp, related to the festival Kissinger Sommer
- 2009: Silver Medal and Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music (shared with Evgeni Bozhanov), Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Compe*ion
- 2011: 2nd Prize, Best Chamber Concerto (Mozart Concerto) Performance, Best Performance of the Commissioned Work (by Rodion Shchedrin) XIV International Tchaikovsky Compe*ion
Discography
- 2004: "Chopin: 24 Etudes" (Universal Music)
- 2008: "Chopin: Nocturnes for Piano and Orchestra" (Universal Music)
- 2009: "13th Van Cliburn Compe*ion: Yeol Eum Son, Silver Medalist" (Harmonia Mundi)
- 2012: "Yeol Eum Son, Piano" (O'new World Music)
- 2016: "Schumann & Brahms: Sonatas, Romances" (Decca Cl*ics)
- 2016: "Modern Times: Berg, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Ravel" (Decca Cl*ics)
- 2018: "Mozart: Piano Concerto No.21 K467 / Sonata No.10 K330" (Onyx Cl*ics)
- 2020: "Schumann: Fantasy in C - Kreisleriana - Arabesque" (Onyx Cl*ics)
- 2021: "Kapustin" (Onyx Cl*ics)
References
External links
- Official website