Hwa-Kyung Yim

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Hwa-Kyung Yim ( Korean 임 화경 RR Im Hwa-Gyeong , MCR Im Hwagy‌ŏng ; * in Seoul ) is a South Korean pianist .

Life

She attended art high school in her hometown. At the age of fourteen (1978) she made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Korea . In the same year she began studying the piano with Detlef Kraus at the Folkwang University in Essen . She then studied with Bernhard Ebert at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and with Elza Kolodin and James Avery at the Freiburg University of Music . She has appeared at the Berliner Festwochen , musica viva in Munich and the Darmstadt Summer Courses and has played with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin . In 1998 she received the Kranichstein Music Prize in Darmstadt. In 2004 she became a visiting professor at Ulsan University in South Korea, where she held a professorship from 2006 to 2011 . She has been a lecturer for piano in Bremen since 2011.

In 1986 she married the composer Jörg Birkenkötter , who has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen since 2011 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist: Hwa-Kyung Yim , archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de, accessed on June 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ Michael Schön: Worpswede: Piano songs, dressed in the sound garb of the present , weser-kurier.de, October 31, 2014, accessed on June 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ Michael Schön: Pianist Hwa-Kyung Yim in Worpswede: "Music is a language" , weser-kurier.de, November 19, 2015, accessed on June 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Yim, Hwa-Kyung
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century