Jimin Oh-Havenith

Jimin Oh-Havenith (born December 27, 1960 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a Korean-German pianist.

Life

She received her first piano lessons at the age of six. After attending Seouls Arts High School, she studied music at Seoul National University with Jin-Woo Chung. In 1980 she came to Germany and studied with Aloys Kontarsky at the Cologne University of Music and graduated in 1984 with a diploma.

During her studies, she played concerts in Germany and abroad (including Hong Kong, South Korea). In addition to her concert activities as a soloist, she performed as a piano duo with her then husband, Raymund Havenith († 1993), with whom she made numerous radio ( WDR , DLF , NDR , SWF ) and recordings.

Jimin Oh-Havenith taught at the University of Mainz and the University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt am Main .

Discography (selection)

• Ulrich Leyendecker : The piano work (with Raymund Havenith ). NDR , Musicaphon 1990/1999 (CD).
• Edvard Grieg : Piano works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with freely composed accompaniment of a second piano. Piano duo with Raymund Havenith . Hessischer Rundfunk , Frankfurt am Main 1991, Musicaphon 1991, 2013.
• Frédéric Chopin and Louis Moreau Gottschalk : piano works. Musicaphon 2015.
• Frédéric Chopin , Sonata op.35 in B flat minor , Ludwig van Beethoven , Sonata op.111 in C minor . Musicaphon 2017.
• Johann Sebastian Bach , Goldberg Variations BWV 988. Musicaphon 2019.
• Franz Schubert , Sonata in G major D. 894, Franz Liszt , Sonata in B minor . Audits 2019.
• Ludwig van Beethoven , Sonata in F minor, op. 57 ("Appassionata") , E major, op. 109 and C minor, op. 111 . Audits 2020.

Web links

• Jimin Oh-Havenith's website
• Official channel on YouTube
• Works by and about Jimin Oh-Havenith in the catalog of the German National Library