Sukyeon Kim

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Sukyeon Kim ( 김숙연 , Kim Suk-yeon , * 1988 in Iksan ) is a Korean pianist .

Life

Sukyeon Kim studied from 2004 to 2006 at the Daejeon Arts School with Ji-Yeon Kim, where she won first prize in the Chungnam University competition and second prize in the CBS music competition. From October 2007 she continued her studies at the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf in the piano class of Georg Friedrich Schenck and since February 2008 she has also been a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

In December 2012, she performed in the Tonhalle Dusseldorf with the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms on, in March 2013, she played in the Konzerthaus Dortmund , the First Piano Concerto by Chopin . In 2014 she passed her concert exam "with distinction".

The pianist has mastered a wide range of repertoire from classical to modern. She prefers extremely virtuoso, technically demanding works such as those by Sergej Rachmaninow and Nikolai Kapustin , which in turn are inspired by jazz , as well as the etudes by György Ligeti .

Prices

  • 2008: 1st prize at the Emánuel Moór competition
  • 2009: 1st prize at the Bechstein competition in Düsseldorf
  • 2010: 1st prize at the Cologne Chopin Competition of the Kurd-Aschenbrenner Foundation
  • 2011: 2nd prize at the Cologne International Music Competition
  • 2012: 5th prize at the Maria Canals competition in Barcelona .
  • 2012: 1st prize at the Schmolz-Bickenbach competition, in the solo category
  • 2013: 1st prize at the Schmolz-Bickenbach competition, in the chamber music category
  • 2016: Sponsorship award from the state capital Düsseldorf

Discography

  • Nikolai Kapustin , Piano Works , London (Piano Classics) 2015
    • Variations op.41
    • Toccatina op. 36
    • Eight Etudes op.40
    • Piano Sonata No. 2 op. 54 and others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sukyeon Kim plays Nikolai Kapustins Pastorale op. 40 no. 6
  2. ↑ Valentina Meissner, Sponsorship Awards of the State Capital 2016: Awarded for young Düsseldorf artists

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personal data
SURNAME Kim, Sukyeon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kim, Suk-Yeon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Iksan