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The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition

Birth date

May 28, 1994


Country

South Korea


Biography

Born on 28 May 1994, in Seoul, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and is currently a pupil of Michel Beroff. He has won prizes in competitions in Moscow, Hamamatsu and Tel Aviv. He has performed in concert with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra (Valery Gergiev), the French Radio, Czech, Seoul (all with Myung-Whun Chung), Munich (Lorin Maazel) and Ural (Dmitry Liss) philharmonic orchestras, Berlin Radio Orchestra (Marek Janowski), Russian National Orchestra (Mikhail Pletnev) and Basel Symphony Orchestra (Pletnev). He has toured Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Israel, China and the US, also participating in numerous European festivals.

 


 

Source:  chopincompetition2015.com

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